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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

Roald Dahl

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
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
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
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
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
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
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 wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
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
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
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
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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

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