I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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’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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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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!
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