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 DAHLIt is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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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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I’m wondering what to read next.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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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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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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