The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEYAnyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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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 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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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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