When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
ROALD DAHLSomewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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If you are good life is good.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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