QUOTES by Roald Dahl
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We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
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The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
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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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... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
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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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Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! 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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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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Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
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We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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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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Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.
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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
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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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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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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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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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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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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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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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It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
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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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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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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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