A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHLBut 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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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 more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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