If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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 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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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