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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.
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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
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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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... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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I'm wondering what to read next.
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