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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

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
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
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
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
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

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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