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.
ROALD DAHLCareful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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