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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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 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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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 you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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