If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
ROALD DAHLI’m wondering what to read next.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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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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