Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
ROALD DAHLWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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