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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."
"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."
"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
"I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield."
"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
Explore more quotes by Roald Dahl
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
"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."
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
"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."
"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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