When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLCandy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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If you are good life is good.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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