Douglas Jones

“Tuesday, November 17th. 1896

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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”
― Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897

“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”
― Beatrix Potter

“You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter