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.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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 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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