Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHLIf you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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If you are good life is good.
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