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

—  Roald Dahl, book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

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