What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYChicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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