Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
ROALD DAHLDo 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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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 was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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