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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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Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
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Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I'm wondering what to read next. Matilda said. I've finished all the children's books.
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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I shall never have a bath again, I said. Just dont have one too often, my grandmother said. Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child. It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.
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Well, first of all, said the BFG, human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
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