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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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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Always Been Fervent Imperialist Liberal Most
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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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Always Before Landed Plane Woke
To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Delight Favorite Frivolous Grandchildren Hand Put Time Volume Waster
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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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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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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Although Pleasant Christmas Found Ginning Myself Season Something Special Think
They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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Aerial Beloved Country Emigrate Meant Ride Soon View
I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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