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Author: Roald Dahl
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  1. Roald Dahl _ James and the Giant Peach

    There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.
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  2. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.
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  3. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    You chose books. I chose looks.
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  4. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.
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  5. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said.
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  6. Roald Dahl _ Boy: Tales of Childhood

    I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith, hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.
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  7. Roald Dahl _ Charlie and the Great Glass

    I'm afraid the camera got smashed against the side of the Space Hotel, Mr. President," Shuckworth replied. The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.
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  8. Roald Dahl _ The Witches

    An idiotic vitch like youMust rrroast upon the barbecue!
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  9. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?
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  10. Roald Dahl _ Danny the Champion of the

    On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.'Can you hear him, Danny?''Yes,' I said,'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.''What is a dewlap?' I asked.'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.''What happens when his wife hears him?''She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.'That made me laugh.'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.
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  11. Roald Dahl _ Charlie and the Chocolate

    I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.
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  12. Roald Dahl _ Charlie and the Chocolate

    There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There's no knowing where they're rowing, Or which way the river's flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing. . . .
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