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

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
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I'm wondering what to read next.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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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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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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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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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
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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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Two rights don't equal a left.
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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