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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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.Roald Dahl
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.
Roald Dahl
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.
Roald Dahl
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.
Roald Dahl
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl
He knew all this, but in the end
One question drove him round the bend:
He simply couldn't puzzle out
What Life was really all about.
Roald Dahl
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