The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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