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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.


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“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”

Variant: We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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“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.”

Variant: 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.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
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“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”

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“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”

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“I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
-Grandpa Joe”

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“The snozberries taste like snozberries!”

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“You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”

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“I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.”

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“There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!”

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 15, "The Chocolate Room"

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