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.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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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 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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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If you are good life is good.
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