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Roald Dahl  Quotes
…the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys...

—Roald Dahl

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ChildrenGrowthRisk
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

—Roald Dahl

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Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is...

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GirlsMatildaMrs-Bullfrog
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A whizzpopper!” cried the BFG, beaming at her. “Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that...

—Roald Dahl

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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

—Roald Dahl

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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

—Roald Dahl

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StartTogether
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,Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusada comete allanamiento de morada. Crimen número dos: el personaje se queda con tres platos de potaje. Crimen...

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I go down to my little hut, where it’s tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

—Roald Dahl

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I asked my mum, who’s a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a...

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Words’, he said, ‘is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what...

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‘Dexter’ is a very well-oiled machine; it’s just a great show and great to be part of.

—Roald Dahl

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I want an Oompa-Loompa!’ screamed Veruca.

—Roald Dahl

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Life is more fun if you play games.

—Roald Dahl

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EnjoymentFunGames
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You mean you live down here?’ Matilda asked.’I do’, Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her...

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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

—Roald Dahl

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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. A mouth-smile is different....

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Children's-LiteratureDahlDanny-The-Champion-Of-The-World
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

—Roald Dahl

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I do not like film directors very much. They lack humility and they are too damn sure that everything they do is right. The trouble is that it’s mostly wrong. Oh, what a mess Mel...

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I’m afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

—Roald Dahl

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MenMrs-Wormwood
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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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Sebagian besar hal seru yang kita lakukan dalam hidup ini membuat kita takut setengah mati. Hal-hal itu tidak akan seru kalau tidak menakutkan-Danny

—Roald Dahl

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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.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh,...

—Roald Dahl

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HappinessLifeLove
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

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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...

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BooksKidsReaders
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When you’re writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer...

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BookTrue
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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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Children
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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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BelieveGlittering-EyesHidden
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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

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My darling,” she said at last, are you sure you don’t mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?””I don’t mind at all” I said.It doesn’t matter who you are or what you...

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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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HappyInspirational
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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it’s a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with...

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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to...

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BooksLiteratureReading
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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

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And Charlie, don’t forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after. – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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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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Love
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The matter with human beans,” the BFG went on, “is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

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BeliefHumour
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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GetsHeartNobody
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed...

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EnthusiasmInspirationalPassion
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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BooksNorWritten
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a...

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BooksLiteratureReading
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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

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ChildEnemySense
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I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.

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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 bookcase on the wall.

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BooksHumorTelevision
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You seemed so far away,” Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.”Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings,” Matilda said. “It was wonderful.

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DreamingImaginationMatilda
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

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Bunkum and tummyrot! You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates?...

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Inspirational
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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NonsenseWisest
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