I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
ROALD DAHLWe all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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