And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEYI’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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.
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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 grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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My 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.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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