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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
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(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
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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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No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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