Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
ROALD DAHLf I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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 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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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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