Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
ROALD DAHLDo 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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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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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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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