P. L. Travers - Star Quotes

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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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What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

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It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

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[Jane] was watching Mrs. Corry splashing the glue on the sky and Mary Poppins sticking on the star. "What I want to know," said Jane, "is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?" There was no reply to her question and she did not expect one. She knew that only someone very much wiser than Michael could give her the right answer.

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