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Roald Dahl
 
Date of birth: 13 September 1916
Date of death: 23 November 1990
Country Of Origin: Wales
Profession:

Novelist

Biography:
   Roald Dahl described his life in two books, "Boy" and "Going Solo". The first volume deals with his childhood, the second one with his life after school.

His parents were from Norway, but he was born in Wales, 1916. The family used to spend the summer holidays on a little Norwegian island, swimming, fishing and going by boat. When Roald was four years old, his father died, so his mother had to organise the trip alone for herself and her six children.

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" A Liquorice Bootlace is not round. It's like a flat tape about half an inch wide. You buy it rolled up in a coil. "

Roald Dahl
" A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. "

Roald Dahl
" A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. "

Roald Dahl
" A tuck-box is a small pinewood trunk which is very strongly made, and no boy has ever gone as a boarder to an English Prep School without one. "

Roald Dahl
" 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. "

Roald Dahl
" 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. "

Roald Dahl
" All those afternoons on the playing-fields and in the fives courts and in the squash courts made the otherwise grey and melancholy days pass a lot more quickly. "

Roald Dahl
" 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. "

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

Roald Dahl
" Cadbury's were using some of the greatest chocolate-bar experts in the world to test out their new inventions. We knew every chocolate bar in existence. "

Roald Dahl
" Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God? "

Roald Dahl
" Egypt was desert country. It was bare and sandy and full of tombs and relics and Egyptians, and I didn't fancy it at all. "

Roald Dahl
" Everyone has some sort of a boat in Norway. NObody sits around in front of the hotel. Nor does anyone sit on the beach. "

Roald Dahl
" Game-playing at school is always fun if you happen to be good at it, and it is hell if you are not. I was one of the lucky ones. "

Roald Dahl
" GObstoppers, costing a penny each, were enormous, hard, round balls the size of small tomatoes. One Gobstopper would provide about an hour's worth of nonstop sucking. "

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