What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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