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 BRADLEYChildren have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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