Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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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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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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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