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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.

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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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