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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.

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
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
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
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
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
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
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 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
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
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

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.

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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.

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