All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
ALAN BRADLEYI’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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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 had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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