When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLThere is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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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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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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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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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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