Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
ROALD DAHLPerhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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