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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

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
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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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
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
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
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 writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
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
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
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
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
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

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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