It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYI fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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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.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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