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.
ROALD DAHLWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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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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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 life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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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.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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