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I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.
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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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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.
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Matilda said, Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
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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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Well not exactly, the father said.Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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