A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHLGive us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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