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.
ROALD DAHLBut 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.
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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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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If you are good life is good.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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If you are good life is good.
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