Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYThey were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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