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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?

Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
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 wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHL

Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
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
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard

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