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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.

Roald Dahl

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible

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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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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