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 DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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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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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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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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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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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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