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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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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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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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No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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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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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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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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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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