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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.
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
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Matilda said, 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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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I shall never have a bath again, I said. Just dont have one too often, my grandmother said. Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child. It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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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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