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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.

Roald Dahl

If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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 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
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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
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
Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Business Deep One Liner Right
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
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
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
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
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
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
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
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant

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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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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