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

Roald Dahl

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
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
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
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
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
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
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
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
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
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
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
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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