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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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 was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said.
And how fast it comes! Why I do believe its got wings! – Lewis Carroll

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

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

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

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

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If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. – Lemony Snicket

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Time heals what reason cannot. – Seneca

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