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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Roald Dahl

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
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
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
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
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
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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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure

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