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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.
— P.L. Travers
she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band.
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I hate being good.-Mary Poppins — P.L. Travers
The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.
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Mary Poppins," he cried, "you'll never leave us, will you?
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But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.
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Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
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I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!
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This is your new nurse, Mary Poppins.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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More and more I've become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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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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Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.
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Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale.""She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true. — P.L. Travers
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
— P.L. Travers
Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .
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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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Robertson Ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing.
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Michael, you shall have some syrup of figs.
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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.
— P.L. Travers
Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.
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So it was settled, and that was how the Banks family came to live at Number Seventeen, with Mrs. Brill to cook for them,
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Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
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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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Sir Christopher Wren's Cathedral
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I'm the Waiter, you know!
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Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon
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She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.
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He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it was.
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Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.
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Well, au revoir, one and all.
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Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.
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He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.
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