But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHLSome children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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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 you are good life is good.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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