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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

Roald Dahl

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
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner 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
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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
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
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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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
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 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
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

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