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.
ROALD DAHLIt’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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