I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYIt is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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