“In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.”

—  Gottfried Helnwein

Memories of Duckburg, http://www.helnwein.com/texte/helnweintexts/artikel_398.html, Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, 1989

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