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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Roald Dahl

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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
Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Business Deep One Liner Right
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
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
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
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
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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