And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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 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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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