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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

Roald Dahl

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
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
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
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
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
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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
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
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship

I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

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