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I hate being good. -Mary Poppins
P. L. Travers / Novelist
Hate
I Hate
Mary
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Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.
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Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
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Agree
Soul
Tea
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Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.
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Children
Stars
Stones
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Inspiration
Summon
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Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
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Bird
Flying
Gone
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Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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Heartbeat
Sorrow
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Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
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Accepted
Fate
Stories
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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My Own
Rooms
World
Private World
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What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
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Gold
Paper
Stars
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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Ask Me
Asks
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More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
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Convinced
Treasure
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If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
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Crosses
Tree
Want
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I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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Ideas
Thinking
Window
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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Mary
Window
Life Me My Life
All My Life
Blowing
Curtain
Mary Poppins
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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Art
Book
Half
Reader
Writing
Writer
After
Learns
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And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.
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Life
Caring
Hug
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I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.
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Angel
Conquer
Pure
Apart
Quite A Lot
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Loving Parents
Sibling
Grown-Up
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When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
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Children
Sea
Swim
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The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.
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Bird
Moving
Stars
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There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
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Children
Real
World
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I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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Film
Needs
Thinking
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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Implications
Mary
Reader
Subtle
Grasp
Many Respects
Mary Poppins
Respects
Translated
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I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
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Men
Dog
Views
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My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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Beloved
Elderly
Life Man Me
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The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
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Blood
Hero
Race
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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Chaos
Lord
Myth
Hindu
Monkey
Wherever
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For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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Grateful
Looks
Thinking
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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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Answers
Glad
Grateful
I Am Me Look
Because
Very
I Am Me Grateful
Me
Am
Answer
Only
Look
Look I Am Me
Question
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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Book
Children
Maturity
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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Book
Childhood
Endless
Honest
Imaginative
Maturity
No Idea
Substance
Begins
Idea
Chop
Off
Section
Specifically
Where
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Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
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Running
Grandmother
Knowing
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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Mary
Myth
Nothingness
Absorb
Life Poetry Always
Assumed
Legend
Life Poetry Me
Mary Poppins
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Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
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Life
Feet
Hero
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With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
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Creative
Creativity
Light
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Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.
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Men
Book
Children
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Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon." Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?" The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.
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Kings
Cat
Moon
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I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.
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Teacher
Book
Children
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It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.
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Children
Moving
Stars
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