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.
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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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