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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.
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A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky... The name is Honey, Miss Honey said. Now look at me, Mrs Wormwood said. Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood
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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.
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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.
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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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.
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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