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Roald Dahl

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
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
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
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
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
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
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

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