I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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