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

Roald Dahl

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
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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 have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
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
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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
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
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
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
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
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Funny Humour
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
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster

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

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