Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 8

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• I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

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  Children, Age, Remember

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• Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

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  Father, Perfect, Diaries

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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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  Moving, Thinking, Chasing Me

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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 to being six or seven or eight again.

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  Dark, Eight, Littles

  "Great dynasties of the world: The Dahls" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

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  Rewriting, Speed, Suspicious

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• The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

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  Pigs, House, Pork

  Roald Dahl (1995). “Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes”, Puffin

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• I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

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  Wish, Faces, Impossible

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Matilda (Colour Edition)”, p.188, Penguin UK

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• Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

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  Teacher, Prayer, Benches

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.46, Penguin

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• Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

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  Father, Long, Said

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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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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  Feet, Together, Twenties

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

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• We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

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  Dream, Country, Said

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.74, Penguin

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• Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

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  Vegetables, Interesting, Trying

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• I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

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  Thinking, Feel Good, Feels

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• Good authour Good books

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  Book, Good Book

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• Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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  Children, Book, My Own

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• I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

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  Doubt, Mind, Tragedy

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• He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.

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  Sweet, Joy, Chocolate

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• I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

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  Flames, Bravery, Soldier

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• Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

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  Travel, Over You, Goats

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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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  Giants, Eating

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.165, Penguin

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