Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
ROALD DAHLThen 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!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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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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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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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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