"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village."

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Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

Roald Dahl

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“Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.”
“A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.”
“A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber
“Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldnâ€™t bear to think of him loving her less.”
“I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.”

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“I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen.”
“I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.”

Source : Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.354, Bantam

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