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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.

Roald Dahl

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
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
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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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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