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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Roald Dahl

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
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
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
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
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
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
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
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour

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