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Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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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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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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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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