Alison Uttley Quotes

• I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

  Alison Uttley

  Thinking, Imagination, Foolish

  "Diaries reveal dark side to Little Grey Rabbit's creator" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

  Alison Uttley

  Time, Brother, Real

  1948 Carts and Candlesticks.

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