I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
ROALD DAHLIf I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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If you are good life is good.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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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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