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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
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Llandaf
Wing Commander Roald Dahl
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Children
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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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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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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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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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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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A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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