It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLDo you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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