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.
ALAN BRADLEYNot 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English 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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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 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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