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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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 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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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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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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It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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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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