Quote by Lewis Carroll
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! – Lewis Carroll

Other quotes by Lewis Carroll

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. – Lewis Carroll

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strength
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. – Lewis Carroll

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Cats
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Other Quotes from
Modern, Modernism
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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino

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I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun. – Author unknown, from a package of Starbucks coffee, 2010

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Weather

I dont believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. – Ben Stein

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best

Funny Games was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then thats quite different. Funny Games is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. – Michael Haneke

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funny

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. – Jim Hightower

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Courage