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8b4037d	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. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.	television humor	Roald Dahl
5d04ae4	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.		Roald Dahl
245f7c0	Don't gobblefunk around with words.	words funny	Roald Dahl
c5c8e72	It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.		Roald Dahl
78c9f5c	If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. 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 it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always loo..		Roald Dahl
9212005	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 hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.	words literature reading	Roald Dahl
07f4135	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 India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.	words literature reading	Roald Dahl
e3abdc2	If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.	happy inspirational	Roald Dahl
869d481	Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."		Roald Dahl
4b82257	I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.		Roald Dahl
ade9565	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 ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.	passion inspirational passionate-living enthusiasm	Roald Dahl
d5e523e	I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.		Roald Dahl
c166171	Two rights don't equal a left.		Roald Dahl
a9f7e9b	Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after."		Roald Dahl
c681dff	The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.		Roald Dahl
3e6bf1d	It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.	parents	Roald Dahl
e84c3a0	You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.		Roald Dahl
2940c7f	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. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be ..	fiction dahl danny-the-champion-of-the-world	Roald Dahl
04679c1	I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books."		Roald Dahl
85a23dd	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."	imagination matilda	Roald Dahl
9ce293a	All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.		Roald Dahl
12d28ef	Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?		Roald Dahl
ce2f934	If you are good life is good.		Roald Dahl
5baa22f	Life is more fun if you play games.	fun life play games	Roald Dahl
1f0b73b	We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.		Roald Dahl
75b5a29	I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe		Roald Dahl
7314e91	Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.		Roald Dahl
7eb5fd4	The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare ..		Roald Dahl
fa6c186	Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.		Roald Dahl
65ede54	She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impos..		Roald Dahl
c2a0cf8	I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.	role-models	Roald Dahl
4ee1728	And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.		Roald Dahl
38edf56	What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly."		Roald Dahl
5505372	Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.		Roald Dahl
0f28f77	I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.		Roald Dahl
fc50a9d	A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!		Roald Dahl
05e4d29	But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.		Roald Dahl
b8c84d7	I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!		Roald Dahl
3be4aab	Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life."		Roald Dahl
3640fde	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 look like as long as somebody loves you."	witches	Roald Dahl
c28bfcc	Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable." --		Roald Dahl
c5650d4	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 a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?"	giant humor children-s the-bfg gas farting roald-dahl friendly	Roald Dahl
f5d3c43	My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.		Roald Dahl
b08ab4c	Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other. Nor is crockadowndillies killing other crockadowndillies. Nor is pussy-cats killing pussy-cats. 'They kill mice,' Sophie said. 'Ah, but they is not killing their own kind,' the BFG said. 'Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.' 'Don't poisonous snakes kill each other?'..		Roald Dahl

8b4037d

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. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

television humor

Roald Dahl

5d04ae4

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.

Roald Dahl

245f7c0

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

words funny

Roald Dahl

c5c8e72

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

78c9f5c

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. 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 it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always loo..

Roald Dahl

9212005

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 hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

words literature reading

Roald Dahl

07f4135

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 India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

words literature reading

Roald Dahl

e3abdc2

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

happy inspirational

Roald Dahl

869d481

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."

Roald Dahl

4b82257

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

Roald Dahl

ade9565

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 ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

passion inspirational passionate-living enthusiasm

Roald Dahl

d5e523e

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Roald Dahl

c166171

Two rights don't equal a left.

Roald Dahl

a9f7e9b

Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after."

Roald Dahl

c681dff

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

Roald Dahl

3e6bf1d

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

parents

Roald Dahl

e84c3a0

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

Roald Dahl

2940c7f

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. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be ..

fiction dahl danny-the-champion-of-the-world

Roald Dahl

04679c1

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

Roald Dahl

85a23dd

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."

imagination matilda

Roald Dahl

9ce293a

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

Roald Dahl

12d28ef

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

Roald Dahl

ce2f934

If you are good life is good.

Roald Dahl

5baa22f

Life is more fun if you play games.

fun life play games

Roald Dahl

1f0b73b

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

Roald Dahl

75b5a29

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

Roald Dahl

7314e91

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

Roald Dahl

7eb5fd4

The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare ..

Roald Dahl

fa6c186

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

Roald Dahl

65ede54

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impos..

Roald Dahl

c2a0cf8

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

role-models

Roald Dahl

4ee1728

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

Roald Dahl

38edf56

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

Roald Dahl

5505372

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

Roald Dahl

0f28f77

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

Roald Dahl

fc50a9d

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

Roald Dahl

05e4d29

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

Roald Dahl

b8c84d7

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

Roald Dahl

3be4aab

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life."

Roald Dahl

3640fde

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 look like as long as somebody loves you."

witches

Roald Dahl

c28bfcc

Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable." --

Roald Dahl

c5650d4

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 a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?"

giant humor children-s the-bfg gas farting roald-dahl friendly

Roald Dahl

f5d3c43

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Roald Dahl

b08ab4c

Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other. Nor is crockadowndillies killing other crockadowndillies. Nor is pussy-cats killing pussy-cats. 'They kill mice,' Sophie said. 'Ah, but they is not killing their own kind,' the BFG said. 'Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.' 'Don't poisonous snakes kill each other?'..

Roald Dahl