Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
ROALD DAHLRainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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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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