A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

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malevolarky 11 years, 2 months ago
Faulkner wrote sentences that took up entire pages. This quote reminds me of the end of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
user31716 11 years, 11 months ago
The quote can be found here and many of other places on the web:

http://www.thebottomrail.com/2009/08/bottom-rail.html
http://quotations.about.com/od/bookquotes/a/winnie1.htm

If lazyeinstein thinks the sentence should be broken up, he is wrong.
lovegrace24 12 years ago
How sweet ! :D
lazyeinstein 12 years ago
Sorry but "," isn't something you can use however often you'd like. Start new sentences every once in a while.

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