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.
ROALD DAHLI’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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