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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Roald Dahl

I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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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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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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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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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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