No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around 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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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