Roald Dahl Quotes

• 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 they amputated it.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Small, Town

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Iraq, Flying

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Down, Brave

• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Back, Over

• I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Little, Thinking

• I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Little, Ever

• Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Men

• An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Book, Boring

• All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Through, Sometimes

• All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Find, Young

• A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Day

• A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Fool, Person

Roald Dahl (32)

Birth:	13th September, 1916
Death:	23rd November, 1990
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter

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Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.

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