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Roald Dahl [ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl] war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Er schrieb Romane und Kurzgeschichten, denen ein feiner schwarzer Humor zugrunde liegt und die oft überraschend enden. Bekannt ist er sowohl für seine Kinderbücher als auch für Werke, die eher dem Genre schwarzer bzw. makabrer Humor zuzuordnen sind.

✵ 13. September 1916 – 23. November 1990
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Roald Dahl Berühmte Zitate

„Beobachten Sie vor allem mit funkelnden Augen die ganze Welt um Sie herum, denn die größten Geheimnisse sind immer an den unwahrscheinlichsten Orten verborgen. Diejenigen, die nicht an Magie glauben, werden sie niemals finden.“

Roald Dahl

„KIRASUKU MALIBUKU WEEBEE WIZE UN YUBEE KUKU! ¡ALIPENDA KAKAMENDA PANTZ FORLDUN IFNO SUSPENDA! ¡FUNIKIKA KANDERIKA WEEBEE STRONGA YUBEE WEEKA! ¡POPOKOTA BORUMOKA VERI RISKI YU PROVOKA! ¡KATIKATI MOONS UN STARS FANFANISHA VENUS MARTE! El“

Roald Dahl buch Charlie und der große gläserne Fahrstuhl

Charlie y el gran ascensor de cristal

Roald Dahl: Zitate auf Englisch

“What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“… and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.”

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Roald Dahl buch Switch Bitch

Quelle: Switch Bitch

“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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Roald Dahl The BFG

Quelle: The BFG

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie und der große gläserne Fahrstuhl

Not original to this work, the proverb dates from at least the 18th century.
Quelle: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), Ch. 12, 'Back to The Chocolate Factory' (p.88 in the Paperback edition (1998) from Puffin)

“There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quelle: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 15, "The Chocolate Room"

“Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.”

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Roald Dahl The BFG

The BFG (1982)

“It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie und der große gläserne Fahrstuhl

Quelle: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), Ch. 4, "The President" (p. 34 in the 1984 Bantam edition)

“There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.”

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As quoted in New Statesman (1983); partly quoted in "The Candy Man" by Margaret Talbot in The New Yorker (11 July 2005) http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/07/11/050711crat_atlarge?printable=true

“Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest professors is understanding them.”

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Roald Dahl The BFG

"Cool Dreams"
The BFG (1982)

“Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were boring. All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting. One of the things he NEVER NEVER was allowed to do, the most exciting of them all, was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond.”

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Roald Dahl buch The Minpins

The Minpins (1991)

“It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.”

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Roald Dahl

"The Headmaster" in Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)

“You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much.”

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Roald Dahl

Dahl's second-to-last words, hoping they will be profound

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