Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

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