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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Roald Dahl

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
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
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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
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
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
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
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
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

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