One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
ALAN BRADLEYThey 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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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