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.
ROALD DAHLIf the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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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 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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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