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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Roald Dahl

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Amazing Book Excitement Inspirational Introduction Live People Transport
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 can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World

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