Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLIt’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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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