A little magic can take you a long way.
ROALD DAHLAnd 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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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