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Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "pathetic," he said. "that's what it is. pathetic."

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Eeyore, The Old Grey Donkey, Stood By

A. A. Milne

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "pathetic," he said. "that's what it is. pathetic."

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The old grey donkey, eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "why?" and sometimes he thought, "wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

Hallo, eeyore." "same to you, pooh bear, and twice on thursdays," said eeyore gloomily. before pooh could say: 'why thursdays?' christopher robin began to explain the sad story of eeyore's lost house.

Even the sky was grey. grey and grey and greyer. the whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. the eyes of the bride were brown. big and brown and full of fear.

To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. but grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all i can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. the painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

I will never forget that the only reason i'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. stood up when it was hard. stood up when it wasn't popular. and because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. and then a few thousand stood up. and then a few million stood up. and standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

Where did you say it was?' asked pooh. just here,' said eeyore. made of sticks?' yes' oh!' said piglet. what?' said eeyore. i just said "oh!"' said piglet nervously. and so as to seem quite at ease he hummed tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

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