Roald Dahl Short Quotes

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Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

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Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.

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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

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It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

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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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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

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Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

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What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

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Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

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I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

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I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

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The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

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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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Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

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Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

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Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

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And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

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