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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

Roald Dahl

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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