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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

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
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

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