It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLWhen 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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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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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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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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