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Sometimes, on a very clear night,' the BFG said, 'and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction' - and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling - 'if I is swiggling them like this and the night is very clear, I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A queer little shiver passed through Sophie's body. She sat very quiet, waiting for more.
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63bcd24
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Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
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So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.
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literature
reading
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Is she the only one at fault? For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can't spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her into such a brat? Who are the culprits? Who did that? Alas! You needn't look so far To find out who these sinners are. They are (and this is very sad) Her loving parents, MUM and DAD. And that is why we're glad they fell Into the garbage chute a..
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I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemingway e in India con Kipling. Girava il mondo restando seduta nella sua stanza, in un villaggio inglese.
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kipling
matilda
matilde
roald-dahl
hemingway
leggere
libri
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8fbfe58
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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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Roald Dahl |
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f7257a7
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Never grow up...always down.
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Roald Dahl |
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63a5acf
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So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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Roald Dahl |
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f92ed21
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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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Roald Dahl |
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I is not understanding human beans at all,' the BFG said. 'You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?' 'Right,' Sophie said. 'But human beans is squishing each other all the time,' the BFG said. 'They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.' He was right. Of..
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Roald Dahl |
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You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. You went there to work. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous anymore.
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a17bcbc
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Good day, Sir.
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Roald Dahl |
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a2de80c
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say
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Roald Dahl |
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fdc4107
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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last-sentence
last-lines
last-words
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2434f3c
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You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
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what-ifs
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c145873
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It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Roald Dahl |
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e5f5d62
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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Roald Dahl |
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9d2923b
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Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
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Roald Dahl |
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66fc002
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What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
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Roald Dahl |
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Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist."
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human-beans
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24eb37f
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He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another...and another...and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,'..
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Roald Dahl |
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249656d
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She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
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Roald Dahl |
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f631edb
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I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!
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Roald Dahl |
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f07c360
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Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing."
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Roald Dahl |
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0a8ab85
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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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Roald Dahl |
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f8e7693
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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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Roald Dahl |
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a37c347
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Then there was a hard brown lozenge called the Tonsil Tickler. The Tonsil Tickler tasted and smelled very strongly of chloroform. We had not the slightest doubt that these things were saturated in the dreaded anaesthetic which, as Thwaites had many times pointed out to us, could put you to sleep for hours at a stretch. "If my father has to saw off somebody's leg," he said, "he pours chloroform on to a pad and the person sniffs it and goes t..
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Roald Dahl |
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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..
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Roald Dahl |
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Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?
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Roald Dahl |
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6878d74
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An idiotic vitch like you Must rrroast upon the barbecue!
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Roald Dahl |
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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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Roald Dahl |
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5e21636
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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 ne..
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writing
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a79f603
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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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Roald Dahl |
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8550afa
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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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books
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roald-dahl
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Roald Dahl |
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7b885e6
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You chose books. I chose looks.
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roald
matilda
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Roald Dahl |
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cae90cb
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If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.
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Roald Dahl |
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8cca8d0
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.
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Roald Dahl |
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1cda8b8
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It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her lit..
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Roald Dahl |
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214e13c
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
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Roald Dahl |
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b239f7f
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Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Roald Dahl |