A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
ROALD DAHLSomewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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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.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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