So what I want to know is this. How often do all these hairy-faced men wash their faces? It is only once a week, like us, on Sunday nights? And do they shampoo it? Do they use a hair-dryer? Do they rub hair-tonic in to stop their faces from going bald? Do they go to a barber to have their hairy faces cut and trimmed or do they do it themselves in front of the bathroom mirror with nail-scissors?
Roald DahlWhat on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
Roald DahlTag: matilda
We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
Roald DahlSome people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.
Roald DahlTag: motivational endurance attitude spirit hero not-giving-up
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
Roald DahlI have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.
Roald Dahlmy candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light
Roald DahlTag: inspirational
let your love out
Roald DahlTag: realistic
And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, 'My dear Lady Ponsonby, there's nothing immoral about this. Art is only immoral when practiced by amateurs. It's the same with medicine. You wouldn't refuse to undress before your doctor, would you?
Roald DahlI was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.
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