I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
ROALD DAHLThose who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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