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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
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I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
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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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A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
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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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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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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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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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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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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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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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