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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
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
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
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
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
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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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number

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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