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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Roald Dahl

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
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
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
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
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
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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Humour Right Wrong
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing

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