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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,

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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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 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 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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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As 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.
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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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