Quotes by Astrid Lindgren - Page 1

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?
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Ifs
Lying
Stills
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Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
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Cheeky
Wonderful
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If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
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Childhood
Gloomy
Satisfied
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Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
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Imagination
Firsts
World
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There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
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Children
Discipline
Hug
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I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
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Clean
Dying
House
Mind
Gladly
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Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
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Children
Common Sense
Giving
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But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
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Dangerous
Defense
Self
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If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
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Childhood
Children
Sadness
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And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
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Book
Children
Writing
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I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.
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People
Thinking
Trying
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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
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Book
Children
Thinking
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Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!
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Girl
Ems
Yesterday
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What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
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Imagination
Today
World
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I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
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Children
Miracle
Writing
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No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.
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Study
Tomorrow
Weather
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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
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Another Life
If I Could
Labor
Labor Movement
Labour Movement
Movement
Pioneers
Beginning
Interested
Loved
In The Beginning
Pioneer
Wished
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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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Book
Children
Healing
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I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
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Children
Enormous
Grandchildren
Missing
People
Love Great People
Love Great Children
Although
Miss
Experienced
Madly
To Love
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You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
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Kings
Teacher
Father
Mother
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The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.
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Girl
Running
Mean
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Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?" she argued. "You wait and see, it's going to turn out he was a maidservant in Arabie after all, and if that's the case, I know who's making the meatballs at our house hereafter!
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House
Lying
Waiting
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As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.
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Girl
Children
Eye
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At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.
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Country
Song
Weather
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