If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
ROALD DAHLRainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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 doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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If you are good life is good.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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