To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLSomewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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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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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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