The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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 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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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