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 DAHLBut there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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If you are good life is good.
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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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