If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
ALAN BRADLEYTV 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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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 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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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