One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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 learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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