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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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 who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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 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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I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.
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