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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

~Roald Dahl

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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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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: September 13th, 1916

Died: November 25th, 1990

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