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Two rights don't equal a left.

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
Author
Autobiographer
Fighter Pilot
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Llandaf
Wing Commander Roald Dahl
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Left
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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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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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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I'm wondering what to read next. Matilda said. I've finished all the children's books.
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... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
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There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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