P. L. Travers Quotes - Page 2

• I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

  P. L. Travers

  Thinking, Ideas, Window

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• And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

  P. L. Travers

  Life, Caring, Hug

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  P. L. Travers

  Thinking, Needs, Film

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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.

  P. L. Travers

  Dog, Men, Views

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• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  P. L. Travers

  World, Rooms, My Own

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