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 BRADLEYOne of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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