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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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I'm wondering what to read next.
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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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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Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
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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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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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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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Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.
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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.
Roald Dahl
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.
Roald Dahl
...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.
Roald Dahl
