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.
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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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