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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
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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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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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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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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 is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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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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I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.
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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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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
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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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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.
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If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
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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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