So 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.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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If you are good life is good.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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If you are good life is good.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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