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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
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
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
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
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
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
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
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
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner 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
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person

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