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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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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 not exactly, the father said.Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.
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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 understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
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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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