Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
ALAN BRADLEYAll 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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