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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

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 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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I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
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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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Two rights don't equal a left.
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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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No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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You seemed so far away, Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, Matilda said. It was wonderful.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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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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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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