If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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