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marvelous Quotes

10 of the best book quotes about marvelous
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“This place I am hoping to get to is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement. And then, if we failed to get there (which is very possible), you would die of disappointment. I don’t want to raise your hopes too much, my darlings.”
Roald Dahl
author
Fantastic Mr. Fox
book
Mr. Fox
The Small Foxes
characters
hoping
children
failure
excitement
disappointment
possibilities
marvelous
raising hopes
concepts
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“He is a marvel -- man is! I would I knew who invented him.”
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“For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time.”
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“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
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“Well, James, have you ever in your life seen such a marvellous colossal Centipede as me?”
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“We hurried to the door with the red sign: DANGER.”
Michael
character
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″ ‘Hooray! shouted Yertle. ‘I’m king of the trees! I’m king of the birds! And I’m king of the bees! I’m king of the butterflies! King of the air! Ah, me! What a throne! What a wonderful chair! I’m Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!’ ”
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“What I have been trying so hard to tell you all along is simply that my father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had.”
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“the most marvelous cloth...invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office or unforgivably stupid”
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″ ‘Dear little swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and women. There is no mystery so great as Misery. Fly over my city, little swallow, and tell me what you see.’ ”

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