British - Novelist | September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl
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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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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.
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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
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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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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
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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 my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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