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 BRADLEYMy grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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