But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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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