But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHLFairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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 heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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