I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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 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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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