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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
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
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
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
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
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
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
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
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
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 have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
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
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
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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

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