To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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 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 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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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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