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.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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