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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

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
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 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
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
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’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
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
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
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
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
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
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious 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
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
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
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
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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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret

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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