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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
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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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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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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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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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Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
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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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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 person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.
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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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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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