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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

Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
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
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
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
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
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Accomplishment Book Children Help Important Reading Success
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
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
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant

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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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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