Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHLThough my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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If you are good life is good.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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