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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Roald Dahl

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
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
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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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
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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Book Children Writing
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
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
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

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