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Book: The BFG
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  1. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said.
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  2. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?
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  3. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.
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  4. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    . . . I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!
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  5. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
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  6. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
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  7. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    I is not understanding human beans at all,' the BFG said. 'You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?' 'Right,' Sophie said. 'But human beans is squishing each other all the time,' the BFG said. 'They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.' He was right. Of course he was right and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants.
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  8. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Sometimes, on a very clear night,' the BFG said, 'and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction' – and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling – 'if I is swiggling them like this and the night is very clear, I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A queer little shiver passed through Sophie's body. She sat very quiet, waiting for more.
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  9. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Dreams is full of mystery and magic . . . . Do not try to understand them."
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  10. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.
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  11. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    let your love out
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  12. Roald Dahl _ The BFG

    Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
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