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

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.