I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
ROALD DAHLI 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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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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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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