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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

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Children, Giving, Lord

Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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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?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

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Love You, Long, Mind

Roald Dahl (1983). “The Witches”, Vintage

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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

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Life, Lucky, Might

Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.33, Penguin

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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

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Children, Book, Writing

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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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Hate, Ears, Whispering

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I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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Book, Teaching, Reading

Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

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There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

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Wise, Clever, Memories

Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

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Book, Looks, Pages

Roald Dahl (1994). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, Puffin HC

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Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

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Missing, Ridiculous, Married

Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

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Character, Mean, Generosity

"New Statesman" Magazine, 1983.

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A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

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Giants, Ears, Littles

Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.63, Penguin

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I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.

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Kings, Cheer, Thinking

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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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Black, Gold, Coal

Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.19, Penguin

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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

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Morning, School, Boys

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Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

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Army, Blow, Bangs

Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.35, Penguin

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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

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Lord, Walks, Skates

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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

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Mothers Day, Mom, Children

Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.148, Penguin

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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

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Egypt, Iraq, Flying

Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.156, Penguin UK

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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

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Writing, Long Walks, Long

Roald Dahl (2001). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

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Pain, Doctors, Knives

Roald Dahl (2016). “Boy and Going Solo”, p.107, Penguin UK

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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

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Love, Impossible, Distraction

"Switch Bitch".

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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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Book, Television, Wormwood

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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

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Punishment, Choices, Tasks

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Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie: What happened?
Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

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Men, Buckets, Ever After

"Fictional characters: Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", 1971.

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I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

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Girl, Believe, Eye

Roald Dahl (1979). “Tales of the unexpected”

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Born: September 13, 1916
Died: November 23, 1990
Occupation: Novelist
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