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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Roald Dahl

Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
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
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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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
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
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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

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