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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Roald Dahl

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 is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
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
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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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Amazing Book Excitement Inspirational Introduction Live People Transport
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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

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