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Children's literature8 quotes
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. — Roald Dahl · 1975A 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. — Roald Dahl · 1980You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. — Roald Dahl · 1972So 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. — Roald Dahl · 1964Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. — Roald Dahl · 1988But 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. — Roald Dahl · 1964All 8 quotes →Autobiography and memoir1 quote
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. — Roald Dahl · 1984