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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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 always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Electronic Knew Last Long Material More Short-live Transmission
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.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Classic English Hand Probably Thought Year
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.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Brought Early Magazine Newspaper Reader
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.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Best Formula Long Something Thing Tiger Word
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

ALAN BRADLEY

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Mark
If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.

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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Cyanide Poison Pony Put
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Child Early Grandmother Read Reader
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.

ALAN BRADLEY

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Anything Ease Everything Find Intrigue More Way
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.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Agonizing Being Bring Busily Devise Devising Gag More New Often Remarkably Sudden Thought Way Writhe
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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Military Not Very
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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Aware Expect Get Much Write
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.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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Back Beam Culprit Expect Fugitive Least Sneak Sudden
I always woke up before the plane landed.

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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Before Landed Plane Woke
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.

ALAN BRADLEY

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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English Fill Grandmother Grew Transplant
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Chemistry Chicken Fizz Protect Toil Vineyard
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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Although Pleasant Christmas Found Ginning Season Something Think

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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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