I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
ALAN BRADLEYAnd I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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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 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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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