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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

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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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
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
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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
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
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
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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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
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 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
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
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
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing

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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