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!
ROALD DAHLHuman ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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