The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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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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The 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.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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