There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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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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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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.
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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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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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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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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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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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