“too loud”: Ibid.
“great regret…”: Ibid.
“made us all Gremlin…”: WP, August 24, 1944.
“the beautiful home…”: CMC.
“scared to death”: HWD.
“I asked if he knew…”: Ibid.
“10,000 agents…”: Ibid.
“Dahl is an awfully nice boy…” Ibid.
“just the same as before”: RDM.
“laughed loud and long”: Chisholm and Davie, Beaverbrook, p. 450.
“parceling out”: NR, pp. 498–99.
“as impossible now…”: Ibid.
“In other words…”: Ibid., p. 502.
“This merely a note…”: Ibid.
“working together to keep…”: Bender and Altschul, Chosen Instrument, p. 389.
“an incomparably better…”: Ibid.
“changing horses…”: Hart, Washington at War, p. 218.
“a clinical analysis”: Hyde, Room 3603, p. 212.
“It’s unbelievable…”: Ibid., p. 213.
“either an idiot or a genius…”: Ibid.
“although undeniably…”: WD, p. 454.
“keen analytical powers…”: BBB, p. 103.
“unavoidable human fallibility”: WD, p. 454.
“a sigh of unofficial…”: Dahl to Eleanor Roosevelt, November 8, 1944, ERP.
“I deeply appreciate…”: Eleanor Roosevelt to Dahl, November 13, 1944, ERP.
“do a job on the balls…”: CMC.
“We met in an era…”: Bender and Altschul, The Chosen Instrument, p. 392.
“What happened next?”: Treglown, Roald Dahl, p. 78.
“it is not always good…”: NYT, September 21, 1996.
“I went to the Oak Room…”: AH.
“Roald would bring…”: Ibid.
“He was so tall…”: Treglown, Roald Dahl, p. 79.
“the one great love…”: NYT, September 23, 1996.
“kind of impossible…”: Treglown, Roald Dahl, p. 79.
“He could be mean…”: AH.
“when they fell in love…”: Treglown, Roald Dahl, p. 77.
“gnome-like, greying…”: Bender and Altschul, Chosen Instrument, p. 390.
“the outstanding symbol…”: HWD.
“favorable…”: Ibid.
“sad”: Ibid.
“favorite court jester”: RIP.
“never dragged his…”: CMC.
“The fourth term was…”: Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, p. 380.
“Nevertheless, even at…”: CMC.
“Screwball, Unincorporated…”: Ibid.
“This man reports…”: Ibid.
“wrote like a madman”: RDM.
“urgent business”: Ibid.
“in solitary opulence”: Ibid.
“did the trick”: Ibid.
“privately communicated”: CMC.
“My Dear Lord…”: Ibid.
“small brain…”: CMP.
“He said he wanted…”: OH.
“the last of his troubles”: CMC.
“perennially efficient…”: Ibid.
“a Hawaiian Princess”: AH.
“quite sensibly…”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 11: THE GLAMOUR SET
“We almost suffered…”: ECP.
“quite a long time”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.
“faster than I…”: RDM.
“quite a shock”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.
“The first impression…”: Ibid.
“only his eyes…”: Ibid.
“quiet Canadian”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 270.
“He never raised…”: Ibid.
“This one is dear…”: Hyde, Room 3603, p. xii.
“The thing I always…”: Stafford, Camp X, p. 253.
“copped out”: Ibid.
“official go-between”: CMC.
“which you would…”: Ibid.
“She is a martinet…”: Ibid.
“It became quite…”: Stafford, Camp X, p. 256.
“switched off”: ECP.
“The Home Secretary…”: Ibid.
“a literary striptease”: Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid, p. 153.
“Uncle Sucker”: Blum, Victory, p. 303.
“The dollar sign…”: Ibid., p. 312.
“rough and harsh”: Ibid.
“catching up”: CMP.
“the matter of the President’s…”: CMP, HWD.
“the establishment…”: Ibid.
“an all-powerful…”: Troy, Donovan and CIA, p. 255.
“secret funds for…”: Ibid.
“maliciously…”: WD, p. 518.
“exposing” and “the glamour set…”: Troy, Donovan and CIA, p. 280.
“To put it mildly…”: ECP.
“very complimentary…” HWD.
“dangerous implications…”: Ibid.
“something of a Russophobe…”: Ibid.
“Seventy-two…”: Ibid.
“very reasonable medical grounds”: RDM.
“attached to the President’s…”: Troy, Donovan and CIA, p. 296.
“My Dear General…”: Ibid., p. 303.
“do a great deal of good…”: HWD.
“a violent addiction…”: ECP.
“exhausted and almost…”: Coward, Future Indefinite, p. 275.
“impeccable secrecy…”: Ibid.
“You know, Ivar…”: YOLO, p. 74.
“the right bit…”: Ibid.
“PRAY PAUSE NOT…”: Ibid., p. 81.
“colleagues in economic…”: BBB, p. 103.
“help bridge over…”: Time, June 6, 1949.
“The sad thing…”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.
“a very rough ride”: Ibid.
“Although Bill…”: Ibid.
“quite nice”: BSI, pp. 13–14.
“luxurious apartment”: RDM.
“My father knew…”: AH.
“It was Charles…”: RIP.
“mad abandon…”: NYT, February 10, 1946.
“especially enjoyed…”: CMC.
“I didn’t understand…”: Baker, Hemingway, p. 637.
“in hospitals and…”: Coward, Diaries, p. 50.
“These stories…”: Ibid.
“Hurrah!”: CMC.
“Talk little…”: Ibid.
“mere papa”: Ibid.
“Your presence…”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 12: FULL LIVES
“Gamblers just before…”: Pearson, Life of Fleming, p. 299.
“must not let British…”: Schapmeier and Schapmeier, Prophet in Politics, p. 155.
“through forever”: CMC.
“I don’t know what…”: BBC/NVC Roald Dahl documentary, produced and directed by Donald Sturrock.
“cured”: CMC.
“we hear that…”: Ibid.
“From being a…”: Dahl, Over to You, p. 151.
“the noise of gunfire…”: Roald Dahl, “The Soldier,” Someone Like You.
“Not many will read it…”: CMC.
“what they could do with it”: Ibid.
“despair held bolt upright…”: Baker, Hemingway, p. 486.
“I wish them dead”: CMC.
“cheap for the thrill…”: Ibid.
“to tear one another…”: Dahl, “Claud’s Dog,” Someone Like You.
“a thousand sisters…”: Treglown, Roald Dahl, p. 84.
“It was Charles…”: RIP.
“Charles got me…”: Ibid.
“something like a cult…”: NYHT, December 13, 1953.
“It’s not that I dislike…”: Ibid.
“the stories are brilliant…”: Coward, Future Indefinite, p. 231.
“I’d got a gimmick…”: Ogilvy, The Unpublished David Ogilvy, p. 174.
“curiously refreshing…”: Advertising Age, July 6, 1999.
“In the Bryce world…”: Interview with Dahl, John Pearson Papers, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.
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br /> “There was always…”: YOLO, p. 93.
“Why don’t you…”: Interview with Dahl, John Pearson Papers.
“Of course, I’m just playing…”: Ibid.
“humanitarian instincts”: CMC.
“Right, give him $200”: Haines, Philanthropist, p. 35.
“do not give a fuck…”: CMC.
“humanitarian endeavors”: Ibid.
“die broke”: Newsweek, January 13, 1947.
“If he chanced…”: RIP.
“looked marvelous”: CMC.
“got it in his head…”: RIP.
“I didn’t like him at all”: Patricia Neal, interview by author.
“I met Charles…”: Neal, As I Am, p. 156.
“consistent but dispassionate…”: Ibid., p. 159.
“I got to know them all…”: Neal interview.
“He could be the most…”: Ibid.
“Dahl couldn’t stand…”: Ibid.
“[He] suddenly produced…”: Neal, As I Am, p. 166.
“find a rich girl”: Ibid., p. 158.
“cool her ardor”: Ibid., p. 179.
“very well done”: Ibid.
“Charles was a…”: Ibid., p. 181.
“Boy, he told me…”: Neal interview.
“You don’t understand men…”: Neal, As I Am, p. 181.
“new eminence…”: Kopper, Giver.
“weekend, after weekend…”: Neal interview.
“could not remember…”: Neal, As I Am, p. 259.
“the Greek tragedians…”: Ibid., p. 273.
“beastly job”: Twilight Zone Magazine, February 1983.
“It was a proper…”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.
“no one can steal…”: ECP.
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