I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
ROALD DAHLI’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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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.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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