Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
ROALD DAHLBut 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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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I’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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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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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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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