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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.
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"Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —" murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children.
"Child and serpent, star and stone — all one."
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I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work.
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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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The true fairytales … come straight out of myth; they are, as it were, minuscule reaffirmation of myths, or perhaps the myth made accessible to the local folky mind. One might say that fairytales are the myths falling into time and locality … is the same stuff, all the essentials are there, it is small, but perfect. Not minimized, not to be made digestible for children.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
August 9, 1899
Died:
April 23, 1996
(aged 96)
Bio:
Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-born British novelist, actress, and journalist who migrated to England and lived most of her adult life there.
Known for:
Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)
Mary Poppins (1934)
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
Mary Poppins in the Park (1952)
Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988)
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