Alive, Alive, Oh!

“You used to be much more…’muchier.’ You’ve lost your muchness.”

“‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ says the White Queen to Alice.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

“There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.”

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things.”

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‘Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!’

‘Well, now that we have seen each other,”’ said the unicorn, ‘if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.’

“Why it’s simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don’t you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing’s impossible!”

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Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’

‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!’