Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEYAnd I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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 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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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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