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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!

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
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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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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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