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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

Roald Dahl

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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
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’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
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
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 writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
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
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
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
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
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
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
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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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

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