Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLf I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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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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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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If you are good life is good.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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