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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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... 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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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood
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