What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYAnd I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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