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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

Roald Dahl

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
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
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
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality

Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

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