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.
ALAN BRADLEYI fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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 knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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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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