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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

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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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
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
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
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
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
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
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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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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