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.
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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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