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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Roald Dahl

I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength

Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

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