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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. Brian Sibley: Or brains even?
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people
life
love
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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Roald Dahl |
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Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.
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Roald Dahl |
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We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come and see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. "All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that's where we always will be. No book ever ends
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Roald Dahl |
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Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.
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Roald Dahl |
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From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her. She was not quite tall enough to reach things around in the kitchen, but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted..
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Roald Dahl |
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The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles."
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humour
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Roald Dahl |
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I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
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Roald Dahl |
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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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Roald Dahl |
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Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?
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Roald Dahl |
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.
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Roald Dahl |
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.
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Roald Dahl |
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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
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Roald Dahl |
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You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!"
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Roald Dahl |
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Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.
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Roald Dahl |
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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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writing-life
writing
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Roald Dahl |
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The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
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Roald Dahl |
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Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of ?" I did not," Miss Honey said smiling. "How absolutely fascinating. Where did you read that?" In a book from the library," Matilda said. "And that means it goes so fast that you can't even hear the separate beats. It must sound like a buzz." It must," Miss Honey said."
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Roald Dahl |
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There aren't many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,' Matilda said. 'Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?' Miss Honey asked. 'I do,' Matilda said. 'Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.
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Roald Dahl |
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Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue..
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I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.
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mrs-wormwood
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Roald Dahl |
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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
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Roald Dahl |
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Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.
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Roald Dahl |
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England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn't read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, but in the end One question drove him round the bend: He simply couldn't puzzle out What LIFE was really all about. What was the reason for his birth? Why was he placed..
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the-pig
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Roald Dahl |
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There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
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Roald Dahl |
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Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds. My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads! How could I marry anyone Who does that sort of thing for fun? The Prince cried, "Who's this dirty slut? Off with her nut! Off with her nut!"
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Roald Dahl |
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the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.
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risk
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EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND
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Roald Dahl |
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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood"
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In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
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Roald Dahl |
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I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
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Roald Dahl |
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Roald Dahl |
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Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.
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spirit
motivational
not-giving-up
endurance
hero
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However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.
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Roald Dahl |
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Roald Dahl |
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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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Roald Dahl |
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There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want--or near enough.
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Roald Dahl |
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Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.
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Roald Dahl |
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I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
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Roald Dahl |
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What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
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Roald Dahl |
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my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light
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Roald Dahl |
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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humor
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Roald Dahl |
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3379112
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The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last."
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