If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
ROALD DAHLIt is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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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.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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