What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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 am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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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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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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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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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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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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