Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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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