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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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wonka-inventions
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Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!"
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It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible."
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magic
nothing-is-impossible
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Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn't everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.
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dreams
journeyss
lights
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Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around.
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words
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You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.
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teaching
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a5a25ba
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I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they mi..
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We must hurry!' said Mr. Wonka. 'We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!
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I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.
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There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memor..
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humour
funny
humor
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It is almost worth going away because it's so lovely coming back.
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Roald Dahl |
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44a6c8a
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We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.
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happiness
luck
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Roald Dahl |
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0eb02b3
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With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?
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shocking
matilda
roald-dahl
intelligent
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dc12340
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Roald Dahl |
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These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
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Roald Dahl |
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The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.
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Roald Dahl |
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and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
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Matilda longed for her parents to be good and loving and understanding and honourable and intelligent. The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with. It was not easy to do so. But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable. Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was bra..
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Roald Dahl |
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3185e54
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.
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Roald Dahl |
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60bf1b1
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Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Roald Dahl |
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fab5851
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
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matilda
roald-dahl
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Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
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Roald Dahl |
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Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue!" cried Mr. Wonka. "It's such a waste of precious time!"
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Do you wonder then that this man's behaviour used to puzzle me tremendously? He was an ordinary clergyman at that time as well as being Headmaster, and I would sit in the dim light of the school chapel and listen to him preaching about the Lamb of God and about Mercy and Forgiveness and all the rest of it and my young mind would become totally confused. I knew very well that only the night before this preacher had shown neither Forgiveness ..
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Roald Dahl |
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The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
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Roald Dahl |
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A message To the children who have read this book. 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!" - Danny, the champion of the world."
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Roald Dahl |
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let your love out
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Roald Dahl |
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So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.
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Roald Dahl |
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And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First, there is the side he displays to the public, that of an ordinary person like anyone else, a person who does ordinary things and speaks ordinary language. Second, there is the secret side, which comes out in him only after he has closed the door of his workroom and is completely alone. It is then that he slips into another w..
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Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! 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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A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY
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parenting
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I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for y..
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Dreams is full of mystery and magic . . . . Do not try to understand them.
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Oh, books, what books they used to know, Those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Roald Dahl |
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Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
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life
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Roald Dahl |
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147dbe3
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Roald Dahl |
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Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long..."
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roald-dahl
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Roald Dahl |
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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Roald Dahl |
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156a698
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We may see a Creature with forty-nine heads Who lives in the desolate snow, And whenever he catches a cold (which he dreads) He has forty-nine noses to blow. 'We may see the venomous Pink-Spotted Scrunch Who can chew up a man with one bite. It likes to eat five of them roasted for lunch And eighteen for its supper at night. 'We may see a Dragon, and nobody knows That we won't see a Unicorn there. We may see a terrible Monster with toes Grow..
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imagination
james-and-the-giant-peach
roald-dahl
monsters
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Roald dahl |
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cfaaf2c
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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
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writing
roald-dahl
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Roald Dahl |
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Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.
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Roald Dahl |
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You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.
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Roald Dahl |
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We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
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Roald Dahl |
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Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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