Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
ALAN BRADLEYThe spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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