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• A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Lovely, Inches

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• The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

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  House, Bed, Comfort

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.90, Penguin

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• Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

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  Want, Awful, Stomach

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• If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

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  Teacher, Food, Cooking

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• When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

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  Book, Writing, Ties

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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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  Fun, Dawn, Want

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.180, Penguin

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• The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

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  Children, Sleep, Dark

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.533, Penguin UK

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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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  Lovely, Fortunate, Fellows

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.82, Penguin

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• You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

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  Stars, Past, Wings

  Roald Dahl (1988). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

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  Grandpa, Sometimes, Imagine

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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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  Important, Said, Left

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.34, Penguin

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• Obscurity is never a virtue.

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  Obscurity, Virtue

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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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  Wall, Ceilings, Juice

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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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!

  Roald Dahl

  Powerful, Simple, English Grammar

  Roald Dahl (1987). “The Roald Dahl omnibus”, Hippocrene Books

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• Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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  Writing, Two, People

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• The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

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  Ideas, Plot, Reason

  Roald Dahl (2017). “The Roald Dahl Treasury”, p.560, Penguin UK

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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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  Mind, Spells, Listeners

  Roald Dahl (2012). “Switch Bitch”, p.9, Penguin

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• Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

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  Tickling, Problem, Said

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.50, Penguin

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• It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

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  Life, Magic, Impossible

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• Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

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  Children, Parent, Faults

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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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  Children, Book, Next

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Matilda”, p.13, Penguin

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• What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

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  Mean, Two, Different

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.45, Penguin

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• Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Perspiration

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• I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

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  Dream, Inspiration, Dreamer

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• You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

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  Doubt, Should

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