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

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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 found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
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 greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
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
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
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
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
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
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

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