Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYCompared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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