If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
ROALD DAHLSomewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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