Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLI am suspicious of both facility and speed.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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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 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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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