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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

Roald Dahl

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
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
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
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
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
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
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
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious 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
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace

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