Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLAnd 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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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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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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I 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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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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