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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection 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
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
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
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 think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
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
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
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
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
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.

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