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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
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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've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
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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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Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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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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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'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about 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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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