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.
ROALD DAHL
When 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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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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I 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.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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 you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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