I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
ROALD DAHLWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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’m wondering what to read next.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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