I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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