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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.

Roald Dahl

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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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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
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
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
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
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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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
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
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.

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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.

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