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The BFG

Roald Dahl

The BFG is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World. The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962. As of 2009, the novel has sold 37 million copies in UK editions alone, with more than 1 million copies sold around the world every year.An animated adaptation was shown on television in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It has also been adapted as a theatre performance. A theatrical Disney live-action adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg was released in 2016.

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“Two wrongs don't make a right.”

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Variant: Two rights don't equal a left.
Source: The BFG (1982)

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“Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”

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Source: The BFG

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“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

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Source: The BFG

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“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

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Source: The BFG

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“The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.”

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Source: The BFG

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“The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”

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Source: The BFG (1982)

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“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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Source: The BFG

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“You is getting nosier than a parker.”

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Source: The BFG

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“A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?”

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Source: The BFG

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“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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The BFG (1982)

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“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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"Cool Dreams"
The BFG (1982)

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