Roald Dahl Quotes

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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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
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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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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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Memories School Shoes Stair
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
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Funny Humour
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
It’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.
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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True

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