I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
ROALD DAHLThere is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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