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From Quotes by Roald Dahl
- If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
- I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
- My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and…
- Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood
- Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most…
- ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks,…
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