I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
ROALD DAHL
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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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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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