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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.

Roald Dahl

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
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
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 should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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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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