It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLIf my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I 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.
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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 writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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