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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

Roald Dahl

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
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 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
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
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
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
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
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
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Accomplishment Book Children Help Important Reading Success
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
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

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

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