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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Roald Dahl

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
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
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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
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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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
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
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
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 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
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
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
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace

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