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Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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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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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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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.
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A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
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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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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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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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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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No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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