Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHLThough my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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