Roald Dahl - The BFG (1982)

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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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"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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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

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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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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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What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

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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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I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants

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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 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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