An excerpt from one of Roald Dahl's delightful childlike masterpieces, The Twits.
"...Mrs.Twit wasn't born ugly. She'd had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older. Why would that happen? I'll tell you why.
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 it gets so ugly 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 ahve good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
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3 comments:
what must mark be thinking about then... :)
How can one so beautiful know anything of ugliness?
I hear only good things of you both.
Wanna be family?
as usual, Roald Dahl's wisdom is staggering
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