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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...”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
“Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“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.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
― The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
― The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
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