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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.

Roald Dahl

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
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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Humour Right Wrong
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
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
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
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
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
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
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
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
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
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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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship

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