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

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. – Lewis Carroll

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Life
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. – Lewis Carroll

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Learning
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). – Lewis Carroll

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good
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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