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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl

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
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
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
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
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
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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