A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
ROALD DAHLIf my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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