One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
ALAN BRADLEYLiberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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