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

Roald Dahl

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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
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
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.

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