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  1. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.
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  2. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    You chose books. I chose looks.
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  3. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.
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  4. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
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  5. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
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  6. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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  7. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.
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  8. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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  9. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
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  10. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.
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  11. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...
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  12. Roald Dahl _ Matilda

    Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
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