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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.

Roald Dahl

Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
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
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
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason 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
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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
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
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
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
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
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
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Funny Humour
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task

No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.

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