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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.

Roald Dahl

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
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
ROALD DAHL

Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
ROALD DAHL

Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
I 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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing

Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.

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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.

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