I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLThen suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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