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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

Roald Dahl

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
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
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
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
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
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
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
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
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

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

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