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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
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(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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