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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!
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've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
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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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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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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
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Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing 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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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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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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