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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Fighter Pilot
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Llandaf
Wing Commander Roald Dahl
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Children
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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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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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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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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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Two rights don't equal a left.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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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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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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Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
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