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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

Roald Dahl

I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
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
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
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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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
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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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Business Deep One Liner Right
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
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
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

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