It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYAnd I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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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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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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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