To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLI 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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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