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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.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Business Deep One Liner Right
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
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
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
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
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
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly

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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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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