The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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 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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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