There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
ROALD DAHLThe more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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