But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHLThere is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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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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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 am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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 don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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