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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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 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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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
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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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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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