I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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