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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Accomplishment Book Children Help Important Reading Success
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
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
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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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
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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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

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