“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”

— Roald Dahl

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British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot a… 1916–1990

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As quoted in "Wanderer of Endless Curiosity" by R. Z. Sheppard in Time magazine (10 July 1989) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,958134,00.html