Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs 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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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