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 BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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