As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
ALAN BRADLEYI’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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