If you are good life is good.
ROALD DAHLThe more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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 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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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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.
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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.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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