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Roald Dahl Quotes
Page 2 of 2Roald Dahl
September 13, 1916 - November 25, 1990
Nationality: British
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: British Novelist
|  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. | | Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. | | 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. | | Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. | | I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible. | | 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. | | 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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