To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLWe are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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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 more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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If you are good life is good.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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