Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYIt makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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 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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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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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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