Roald Dahl

Quentin Blake

Tales of Childhood

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But I doubt very much if you would entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife

My sisters shrieked with laughter when I appeared. He can't go out in those!' they cried. He'll be arrested by the police!"

"I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth."

"Then why do you teach mathematics, sir," somebody asked him. 

"I don't," he said, smiling slyly. "I only pretend to teach it."

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous any more. But it was a very different matter in 1934.

It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him

"What is wrong with Egypt?" the Director asked me again. 

"It's.. it's... it's," I stammered, "it's too dusty, sir."

I was off to the land of plam-trees and coconuts and coral reefs and lions and elephants and deadly snakes, and a white hunter who had lived ten years in Mwanza had told me that if a black mamba bit you, you died within the hour writhing in agony and foarning at the mouth. I couldn't wait.

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