All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
ROALD DAHLWe all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find 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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If you are good life is good.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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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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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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