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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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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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I'm wondering what to read next.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
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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 don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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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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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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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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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
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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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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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