Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLThe 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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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