I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
ROALD DAHLI am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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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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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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