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.
ALAN BRADLEYAs 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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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