Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
ROALD DAHLYou should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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