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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

Roald Dahl

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
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
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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 think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
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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