Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
ALAN BRADLEYThey were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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