Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHLI was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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Then 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!
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If you are good life is good.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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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