Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
ROALD DAHLI’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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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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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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