If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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