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Roald Dahl

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

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

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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."

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"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."

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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

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"I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection."

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"The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly."

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"We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more."

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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."

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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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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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"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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"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
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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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