A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh via Encurious.com via Melissa A. Eastman
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Which book is this quote from? I just finished rereading both of Milne’s books and didn’t come across it.
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Jewell, I found this on “Pooh Misquoted” – The origin of this quote is in fact a 1975 movie called “The Other Side of the Mountain” about Jill Kinmont, whose chance at competing in the 1956 Winter Olympics is scuppered when she is paralyzed during a skiing accident. Apparently her best friend also gets polio, then she meets some guy, falls in love, then he dies tragically. (Plane crash? House fire? Who cares.). Lots of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps is involved. Exactly the sort of thing that the recently departed Stella Young would scoffingly refer to as inspiration porn.
If you wanna hear the full quote in situ, check out this clip from the last minutes of the film “The Other Side of the Mountain”. Full quote: “I remember the words that Dick Buek said to me the last time I saw him: How lucky I am to have known someone and something that saying goodbye is so damned awful.” It’s hard to know anymore. I love the Pooh books and want to honor A.A. Milne for books that will last forever. Since I found what looks to be a print with the original artwork, I assumed the source was true.
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