Roald Dahl quote: "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..."

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed...
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my ...
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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawlin...
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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Don't gobblefunk around with words.
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You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

"Oh, I was. I was flying past t...
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...
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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 h...
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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert o...
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted...
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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting littl...
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With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing ...
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lo...
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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...
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quit...
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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is di...
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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very f...
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings yo...
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth an...
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can...
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been ...
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting li...
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ...
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted....
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours,...
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are in...
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Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watchin...
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I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all t...
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
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I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back...
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If you are good life is good.
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Don’t argue, my dear child, please don’t argue!” cried Mr. Wonka. “It’s such a waste of pr...
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I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said....
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, ...
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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I k...
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master e...
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Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing b...
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Two rights don't equal a left.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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 eve...
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My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
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A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizz...
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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when...
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from ...
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It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
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I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.
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It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy par...
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England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
...
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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...
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The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVE...
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If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts...
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I do not like film directors very much. They lack humility and they are too damn sure that everythin...
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I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death...
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Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted....
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them la...
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Facto...
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, chil...
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It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whol...
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You...
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You mean to tell me,’ I said, ‘that every time I pleasure a young lady, I shoot into her two tho...
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Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise how important it was to be an en...
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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up o...
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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating th...
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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 fa...
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Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have be...
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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 poss...
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether h...
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appr...
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people...
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, ...
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to hi...
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy ...
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It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
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¿Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusad...
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I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
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Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel geva...
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Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus...
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
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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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I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
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In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. S...
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Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment ...
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There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to ...
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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 g...
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There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all ...
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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!"
-Harry ...
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A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Loo...
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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 wou...
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, a...
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make s...
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Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred...
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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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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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