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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.

~Roald Dahl

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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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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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: September 13th, 1916

Died: November 25th, 1990

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