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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Roald Dahl

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
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
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
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
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
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
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall

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