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 DAHLA person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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