And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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