But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHLKindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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