It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLPain 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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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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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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