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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
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
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
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
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
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

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