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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
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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'm wondering what to read next. Matilda said. I've finished all the children's books.
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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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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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I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
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