The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYOne of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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 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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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