Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLA 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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