The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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 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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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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