Roald Dahl

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I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

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Danny, the Champion of the World

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Dahl, Roald. Danny, the Champion of the World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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The Twits

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Dahl, Roald. The Twits. Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

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Quoted in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

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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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Quoted in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

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Matilda

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Dahl, Roald. Matilda. Viking Kestrel, 1988.

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But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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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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The Witches

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Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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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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The Minpins

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Dahl, Roald. The Minpins. Jonathan Cape, 1991.

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Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.