Astrid Lindgren Quotes

#1. Pippi stroking his back. 'Bosh, that was a true fib,' she added. 'But if it was true, how could it be a fib? Perhaps when all's said and done, he really has been a butler in Sourabaya, after all! Well, if that's so, I know who's going

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#2. He's the strongest man in the world.'
'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.

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#3. If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

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#4. There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

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#5. Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

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#6. I don't much like to do housework, you know.

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#7. As we were walking along, Britta took her book out of her schoolbag and smelled it. She let all of us smell it. New books smell so good you can tell how much fun it's going to be to read them.

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#8. I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

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#9. Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

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#10. But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

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#11. What should a good children's book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

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#12. Aren't you going to dry the floor?' asked Annika.
'Oh, no, it can dry in the sun,' answered Pippi. 'I don't think it will catch cold so long as it keeps moving.

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#13. Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody's imagination.

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#14. You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

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#15. I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

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#16. and just stared at the children with her big cow-eyes. To

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#17. It's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

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#18. I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

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#19. What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

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#20. I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

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#21. I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.

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#22. I hope you won't mind, my dear, if we take it," said Thunder Karlsson.
"Oh, not at all," said Pippi. "Of course not."
And with that, Blom went over and took out the suitcase.
"I hope you won't mind, my dear, if I take it back," said Pippi, as she climbed out of bed and went over to Blom.

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#23. Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top.

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#24. But I'm the strongest girl in the world, don't forget.

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#25. I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

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#26. But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

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#27. No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

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#29. Instead, I ask you with all my heart, come back to Matt's fort with us now! It's not because I like you - don't think that, whatever you do! But, my daughter does - I know that now - and perhaps I can learn too.

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