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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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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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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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A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
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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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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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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Two rights don't equal a left.
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I shall never have a bath again, I said. Just dont have one too often, my grandmother said. Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child. It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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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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Well not exactly, the father said.Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.
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...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.
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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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I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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