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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Roald Dahl

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Amazing Book Excitement Inspirational Introduction Live People Transport
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
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
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
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
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
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
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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
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

If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

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