“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'”
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A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London and went to school at a small independent school run by his father, John Vine Milne. He went to Westminster School and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was married in 1913, and then joined the British Army in World War I. In 1920, his son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born. In 1925, Milne moved to a country home called Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex. Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne's most famous work, was published in 1926. Although he had his greatest success with his books for children, he stopped writing works for children by the end of the decade, saying that the source of his inspiration for children's stories, his son, had grown older. He continued to write works for adults, although he was frustrated to find that these works were not nearly as popular as his children's books. Milne retired to Cotchford Farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid, and he died in 1956.
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“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'”
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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”
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“A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.”
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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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“I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.”
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“I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.”
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”
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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
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