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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Roald Dahl

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
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
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
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
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Amazing Book Excitement Inspirational Introduction Live People Transport
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

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