If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
ROALD DAHLWe are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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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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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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.
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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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