I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYI always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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 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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