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.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
ROALD DAHLI was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
ROALD DAHLThe prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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.
ROALD DAHLFairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
ROALD DAHLHuman ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
ROALD DAHLYou should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
ROALD DAHLI have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
ROALD DAHLDon’t gobblefunk around with words.
ROALD DAHLWe are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ROALD DAHLA life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
ROALD DAHLThere are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
ROALD DAHLHaving power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHLAn autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
ROALD DAHLThe more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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