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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

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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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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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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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