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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

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
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
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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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
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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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
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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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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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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