It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLDo you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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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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