A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHLIf you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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