It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
ALAN BRADLEYIt 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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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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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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