If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
ROALD DAHLSo please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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