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.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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