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.
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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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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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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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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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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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