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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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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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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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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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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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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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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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If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
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