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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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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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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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