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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Roald Dahl

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
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
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
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
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
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
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
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection 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
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

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