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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?

Roald Dahl

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
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
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
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer 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 you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
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
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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Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
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
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task

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