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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

Roald Dahl

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
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.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
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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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
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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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
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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Humour Right Wrong
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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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

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