To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEYIf you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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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.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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