To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLUnless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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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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