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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
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
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
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
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
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 do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
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
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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