A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
ROALD DAHLNever 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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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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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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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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