It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLIt is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLTwo rights don’t equal a left.
ROALD DAHLPerhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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.
ROALD DAHLSo 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.
ROALD DAHLNever 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.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHLWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
ROALD DAHLThere is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
ROALD DAHLWhen 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.
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.
ROALD DAHLWe make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
ROALD DAHLA little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHLI began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
ROALD DAHLA little magic can take you a long way.
ROALD DAHLWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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