Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
ROALD DAHLDon’t gobblefunk around with words.
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’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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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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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But 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.
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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