Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 7

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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

  Ideas, New Day, Fiction

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.152, Penguin UK

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• Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

  Roald Dahl

  Adjectives, Beastly

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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 laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

  Roald Dahl

  Surface, Below The Surface, Absolutely Nothing

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

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Long Walks, Long

  Roald Dahl (2001). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  Memories, School, Ties

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin

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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.

  Roald Dahl

  Cities, White, Snow

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

  Roald Dahl

  Country, West, 8 Mile

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• I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

  Roald Dahl

  Past, Bombs, Down And

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.102, Penguin

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• Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

  Roald Dahl

  Believe, Thinking, Giants

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.31, Penguin

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• The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

  Roald Dahl

  Queens, Sophie, Maids

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.138, Penguin

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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

  Senior, School, Boys

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.137, Penguin

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• The snozberries taste like snozberries!

  Roald Dahl

  Taste

  "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Book by Roald Dahl, January 17, 1964.

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• I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Age, Remember

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• Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

  Roald Dahl

  Moving, Thinking, Chasing Me

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• Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Perfect, Diaries

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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

  Dark, Eight, Littles

  "Great dynasties of the world: The Dahls" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

  Roald Dahl

  Rewriting, Speed, Suspicious

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• You is getting nosier than a parker.

  Roald Dahl

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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.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Swim, Young

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.63, Penguin

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• The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

  Roald Dahl

  Pigs, House, Pork

  Roald Dahl (1995). “Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes”, Puffin

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• But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

  Roald Dahl

  Love, Impossible, Distraction

  "Switch Bitch".

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• When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.

  Roald Dahl

  Feet, Together, Twenties

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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