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No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/peter-pan-christopher-robin-alice-the-unsettling-stories-of-the-children-behind-fictions-most-enduring-tales #Books #Children #ChildrenAndTeenagers #AaMilne #JmBarrie #LewisCarroll #Culture
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No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/peter-pan-christopher-robin-alice-the-unsettling-stories-of-the-children-behind-fictions-most-enduring-tales #Books #Children #ChildrenAndTeenagers #AaMilne #JmBarrie #LewisCarroll #Culture
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She said she didn’t mean it, and I never said she did,
she said she wanted matches and she just took off the lid
Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 558: A.A. Milne, Forgiven
https://bit.ly/PIM558-milne
#poëzie #animatie #kinderen #AAMilne #kever #lucifersdoosje #ontsnapt #zoeken #vinden #kindermeisje -
Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/16/winnie-the-pooh-book-preliminary-sketches-e-h-shepard #Drawing #ChildrenAndTeenagers #Books #Illustration #Culture #UkNews #AaMilne #Exhibitions #ArtAndDesign #Art
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Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/16/winnie-the-pooh-book-preliminary-sketches-e-h-shepard #Drawing #ChildrenAndTeenagers #Books #Illustration #Culture #UkNews #AaMilne #Exhibitions #ArtAndDesign #Art
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #consideration #genius #history #intellect #lessons #majority #mind #minority #past #precedent #reconsideration #thinking #thought
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #consideration #genius #history #intellect #lessons #majority #mind #minority #past #precedent #reconsideration #thinking #thought
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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Peace with Honour, ch. 16 “Patriotism and Pledges,” sec. 5 (1934)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82508/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #casusbelli #death #proportionality #war #worldwari #ww1
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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Peace with Honour, ch. 16 “Patriotism and Pledges,” sec. 5 (1934)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82508/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #casusbelli #death #proportionality #war #worldwari #ww1
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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.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82288/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #administration #arrangement #coordination #management #mixingup #organization #organizing #planning #preliminarywork #preparation #sorting #structuring
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Year In, Year Out, “July” (1952)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2854/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #chaos #confusion #discovery #disorder #disorganization #higgledypiggledy #jumble #muddle #rediscovery #stumbleacross
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Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn’t any
Other stair
Quite like
It.
I’m not at the bottom,
I’m not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always
Stop.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
When We Were Very Young, “Halfway Down,” st. 1 (1924)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/81963/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #inbetween #liminalspace #place #sitting #stairs #transition
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They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace —
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They’ve great big parties inside the grounds.
“I wouldn’t be King for a hundred pounds,”
Says Alice.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
When We Were Very Young, “Buckingham Palace,” st. 4 (1924)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/81803/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #guards #king #palace #power #satisfaction #wealth
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When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three,
I was hardly Me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I’m as clever as clever.
So I think I’ll be six now
for ever and ever.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Now We Are Six, “The End” (1927)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2838/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #age #childhood #growingup #youth
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Happy birthday, A.A. Milne (b. 1/18/1882)!
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“It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.”
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 7 “Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80809/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #piglet #braveness #courage #pluck #size #smallness #weakness
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For the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Winnie-the-Pooh," Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne. Review--> #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #SomewhereABoyAndABear #MacmillanAudio #ARCReview #AAMilne #NetGalley #Audiobook
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Because my spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 6 “Eeyore Has a Birthday” [Pooh] (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80705/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #pooh #poohbear #error #mistakes #orthography #spelling
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He hadn’t gone more than half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him. It began at the tip of his nose and trickled all through him and out at the soles of his feet. It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, “Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.”
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 6 “Eeyore Has a Birthday” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80538/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #smackerel #craving #hunger #peckishness #snack
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“Wait a moment,” said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.
He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks … and then he scratched his nose twice, and stood up.
“Yes,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I see now,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80463/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #cogitation #consideration #contemplation #delusion #dolt #folly #realization #selfawareness #selfdeprecation #selfimage
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Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “But don’t bother about the bread, please.”
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 2 “Pooh Goes Visiting” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80295/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #greed #hunger #morningsnack #politeness #snack
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Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws and began to think.
“If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.”
Then he thought another long time, and said: “And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey.”
And then he got up, and said: “And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.” So he began to climb the tree.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1 “We Are Introduced” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80292/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #pooh #poohbear #bees #honey #hunger #selfcentered
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For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 4 “Eeyore Loses a Tail” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/32695/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #winniethepooh #poohbear #intelligence #language #vocabulary
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“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 10 “Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2839/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #pooh #poohbear #piglet #breakfast #eating #excitement #awakening #enjoyment #food #living #morning
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“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.
“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 6 “Eeyore Has a Birthday” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2850/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #eeyore #attitude #depression #gloom #goodmorning #greeting #negativity #pessimism #pleasantry
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“Look at me jumping” squeaked Roo, and fell into another mouse-hole.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 7 “Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2844/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #pooh #poohbear #children #clumsiness #jumping #kids #play
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“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said Pooh, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”
“You’re the Best Bear in All the World,” said Christopher Robin soothingly.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2843/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #winniethepooh #poohbear #christopherrobin #reassurance #comforting #delusion #folly #friendship #limitations #praise #selfassessment #selfawareness #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdefeating #selfdeprecating #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfloathing #selfopinion #selfregard #selfreproach #selfrespect #selfworth #soothing #stupidity
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Kanga said to Roo, “Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.” So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once … and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 10 “Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2842/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #kanga #roo #milk #drinking #eating, #mouth #overconfidence #mess
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1 “We Are Introduced” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/78868/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #pooh #poohbear #distraction #introduction #stairs #toy #stuffedanimal
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“Hallo, are you stuck?” he asked.
“N-no,” said Pooh carelessly. “Just resting and thinking and humming to myself.”A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 2 “Pooh Goes Visiting” [Pooh, Rabbit] (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2840/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #poohbear #denial #nonchalance #pretense #stuck #pooh
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You’ve never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. Why don’t you go to them sometimes?
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
House at Pooh Corner, ch. 9 “Eeyore Finds the Wolery” (1928)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2836/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #eeyore #alone #initiative #introvert #isolation #meet #neighbor #proactivity #travel #visit
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How to make your own Winnie the Pooh costume! #aamilne #childrensbook #disney #winniethepooh #winniethepoohandfriends #cosplay #costume
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Someone had the ambition to read Winnie the Pooh in Latin.
That person isn't me.
#books #bookstodon #winniethepooh #aamilne #Latin #classicaleducation #humor
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CW: Long thread/6
#20yrsago Vote absentee, avoid #Diebold machines http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/22/avoid_diebold_register_absentee.html
#20yrsago Air travel “security” as theater of the absurd https://web.archive.org/web/20040130200202/https://idlewords.com/2004/01/security_as_theater.htm
#20yrsago GOP electronically burgled Dems’ computers https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/01/3327-2/
#20yrsago #AAMilne heirs don’t own #WinneThePooh https://web.archive.org/web/20040211100427/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/22/11.45.film
#20yrsago DVD cartel backs off, #EFF wins, #DVDKeys aren’t “secret” https://www.eff.org/cases/dvdcca-v-bunner-and-dvdcca-v-pavlovich
6/
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Today is A. A. Milne's birthday so...
Happy National Winnie the Pooh Day!!
Silly old bear... 🧸
(you wouldn't by any chance have a smackerel of hunny to share, would you? 🍯)
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There’s more to AA Milne than Winnie the Pooh. After getting his degree in 1903, he pursued a career as a writer, producing humorous pieces for Punch magazine. He also wrote a detective novel, The Red House Mystery, in 1922. In fact, Milne was a little peeved that he became so famous for Winnie the Pooh that his other work was largely forgotten.
10 facts about AA Milne:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/01/18-january-aa-milne.html
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A. A. Milne on his inspiration for the book:
"I came out early, oh, ever so early. Nobody was up, the birds weren't up and even the sun wasn't up. And everything was so still that there was no sound in all the world, except just the wind in the willows, whispering ever so gently." ~A.A. Milne
Which I came across and saved from the A.A.Milne bot on Twitter, a long time ago. It is still there.
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With apologies to #AAMilne and #WinnieThePooh
The more it
SNOWS-tiddley-pom
The more it
GOES-tiddley-pom
The more it
GOES-tiddley-pom
On snowingI really don't
KNOW-tiddley-pom
Why I left my
COAT-tiddley-pom
I think I should
GO-tiddley-pom
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#Quotes #AAMilne #SayingGoodbye #Death #Fathers #Loss #Grief
A dear friend sent me this today. My 91 year old father passed away last week--much too long a story for here, but I did see him the day before. This quote fits so well, because though we were apart due the last decade or so, we spoke occaisionally and I know he had love for me, it was just shitty circumstances. This quote adds a layer or perspective.
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -A.A. Milne
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Any #AAMilne fans in here? Or do I have to join #Heffalump?
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Author A.A. Milne (1882-1956) was born #OnThisDay.
He based "Winnie the Pooh" — published in 1926 — on his son Christopher Robin's stuffed animals.
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Happy Winny the Pooh Day Mastodon
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During World War II, AA Milne was a captain in the British Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain "Mr. Milne" to the members of his platoon. On his birthday, 10 things you might not know about A,A, Milne on his birthday:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/01/18-january-aa-milne.html
#AAMilne #Winniethe PoohDay #WinniethePooh #BirthAnniversary #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday
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There is no hurry
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
~ A. A. Milneslip:4a402.
#7ForSunday #AAMilne #Quotes #Wisdom -
Thinking
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is think with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
~ A. A. Milneslip:4a190.
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Watch the river
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
~ A. A. Milneslip:4a282.
#AAMilne #Quotes #Wisdom
