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, 1 month ago
Faulkner wrote sentences that took up entire pages. This quote reminds me of the end of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
user31716 11 years, 9 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 11 years, 11 months ago
How sweet ! :D
lazyeinstein 11 years, 11 months 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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