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.
ROALD DAHLThe snozberries taste like snozberries!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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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 magic can take you a long way.
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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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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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