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Roald Dahl

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
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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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
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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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
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Funny Humour
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
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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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong

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