If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
ROALD DAHLPerhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing 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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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If you are good life is good.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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.
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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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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 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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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