If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
ROALD DAHLSex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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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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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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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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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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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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