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P.L. Travers Quote: “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.”

51. “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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P.L. Travers Quote: “All good things come to an end, sometime,” said Mary Poppins primly.”

52. “All good things come to an end, sometime,” said Mary Poppins primly.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “But nobody ever knew what Mary Poppins felt about it, for Mary Poppins never told anybody anything.”

53. “But nobody ever knew what Mary Poppins felt about it, for Mary Poppins never told anybody anything.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.”

54. “He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “You should trust the children; they can stand more than we can.”

55. “You should trust the children; they can stand more than we can.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “I shouldn’t wonder if you didn’t wonder much too much!”

56. “I shouldn’t wonder if you didn’t wonder much too much!”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Down below, just outside the front door, stood Mary Poppins, dressed in her coat and hat, with her carpet bag in one hand and her umbrella in the other.”

57. “Down below, just outside the front door, stood Mary Poppins, dressed in her coat and hat, with her carpet bag in one hand and her umbrella in the other.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “You don’t look too blooming,” he said to Mary Poppins. “But then, nobody does – – ” Mary Poppins tossed her head. “Speak for yourself,” she said crossly, and flounced to the door, pushing the perambulator so fiercely that it bumped into a bag of oysters.”

58. “You don’t look too blooming,” he said to Mary Poppins. “But then, nobody does – – ” Mary Poppins tossed her head. “Speak for yourself,” she said crossly, and flounced to the door, pushing the perambulator so fiercely that it bumped into a bag of oysters.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.”

59. “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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P.L. Travers Quote: “And here it is worth while remembering, since we are discussing Not Writing for Children, that neither the Sleeping Beauty nor Rumpelstiltzkin was really written for children. In fact, none of the fundamental fairy stories was ever written at all. They all arose spontaneously from the folk and were transmitted orally from generation to generation to unlettered listeners of all ages.”

60. “And here it is worth while remembering, since we are discussing Not Writing for Children, that neither the Sleeping Beauty nor Rumpelstiltzkin was really written for children. In fact, none of the fundamental fairy stories was ever written at all. They all arose spontaneously from the folk and were transmitted orally from generation to generation to unlettered listeners of all ages.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “One and one makes two,′ she declared. ‘And two halves make a whole. And Faithful Friends should be together, never kept apart.”

61. “One and one makes two,′ she declared. ‘And two halves make a whole. And Faithful Friends should be together, never kept apart.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.”

62. “She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Sir Christopher Wren’s Cathedral.”

63. “Sir Christopher Wren’s Cathedral.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “At the Zoo? Me? A quiet, orderly person who knows that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise?”

64. “At the Zoo? Me? A quiet, orderly person who knows that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise?”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Do you think that everything in the world is inside something else? My little Park inside the big one and the big one inside a larger one? Again and again? Away and away?” She waved her arm to take in the sky. “And to someone very far out there – do you think we would look like ants?” “Ants.”

65. “Do you think that everything in the world is inside something else? My little Park inside the big one and the big one inside a larger one? Again and again? Away and away?” She waved her arm to take in the sky. “And to someone very far out there – do you think we would look like ants?” “Ants.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “If I were some people,” she remarked acidly, “I’d mind my own business!”

66. “If I were some people,” she remarked acidly, “I’d mind my own business!”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.”

67. “The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Some people,” remarked Mary Poppins, putting her down, “think a great deal too much. Of that I am sure.”

68. “Some people,” remarked Mary Poppins, putting her down, “think a great deal too much. Of that I am sure.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Miss Lark had two gates. One was for Miss Lark’s friends and relations, and the other for the Butcher and the Baker and the Milkman. Once the Baker made a mistake and came in through the gate reserved for the friends and relations, and Miss Lark was so angry that she said she wouldn’t have any more bread ever.”

69. “Miss Lark had two gates. One was for Miss Lark’s friends and relations, and the other for the Butcher and the Baker and the Milkman. Once the Baker made a mistake and came in through the gate reserved for the friends and relations, and Miss Lark was so angry that she said she wouldn’t have any more bread ever.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Gently, please, gently!” she warned, as they crowded about her. “This is a baby, not a battle-ship!”

70. “Gently, please, gently!” she warned, as they crowded about her. “This is a baby, not a battle-ship!”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.”

71. “But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Nothing lasts for ever.”

72. “Nothing lasts for ever.”

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P.L. Travers Quote: “Do you thing, Mary Poppins... Do you think that everything in the world is inside something else? My little Park inside the big one and the big one inside a larger one? Again and again? Away and away?”

73. “Do you thing, Mary Poppins... Do you think that everything in the world is inside something else? My little Park inside the big one and the big one inside a larger one? Again and again? Away and away?”

— P.L. Travers

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