But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
ROALD DAHLIt is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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 snozberries taste like snozberries!
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