Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
ROALD DAHL
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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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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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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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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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.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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