Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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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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