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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

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
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
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
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
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
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
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
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 have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality

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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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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