I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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 woke up before the plane landed.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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