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.
ROALD DAHLTwo hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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