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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
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
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
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
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
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
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

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

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