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.
ALAN BRADLEYChicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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 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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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