But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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 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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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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 greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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