What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
ROALD DAHLIf my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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 important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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