Roald Dahl quote: "There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?"

Life is more fun if you play games.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.
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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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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is di...
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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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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawlin...
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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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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been ...
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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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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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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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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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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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Two rights don't equal a left.
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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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I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
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Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds.
My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads!
How cou...
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There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plan...
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In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. S...
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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...
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do i...
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Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the wh...
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Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not...
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
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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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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting littl...
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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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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVE...
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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 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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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a te...
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You chose books. I chose looks.
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Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human be...
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right.
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I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words ...
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The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the nig...
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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...
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There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings yo...
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting li...
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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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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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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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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 want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people...
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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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I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death...
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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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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I k...
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No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled
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This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
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What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone...
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Sophie took the book out of his hand. ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ she read aloud. ‘By Dahl’s Chicke...
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Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Cha...
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There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to ...
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From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and re...
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Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
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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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let your love out
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Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left inste...
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Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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Good day, Sir.
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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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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ...
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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 find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all t...
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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 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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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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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up o...
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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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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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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?
She'd found it easy, being pretty
To hitch a ride ...
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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's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!"
-Harry ...
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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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Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred...
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There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?

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Roald Dahl

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?

Roald Dahl

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