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

Roald Dahl

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
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Accomplishment Book Children Help Important Reading Success
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True

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