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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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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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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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