If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
ROALD DAHLUnless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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