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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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 am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
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If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
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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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I'm wondering what to read next.
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Well, first of all, said the BFG, human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
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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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...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
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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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