There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
ROALD DAHLNever do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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