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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.

Roald Dahl

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
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
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
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
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
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 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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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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