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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Roald Dahl

I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
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
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
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious 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 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
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

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