Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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