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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Roald Dahl

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
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
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
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
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
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
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
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
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace

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