We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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