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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Roald Dahl

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
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
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
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
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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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
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

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

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