Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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 very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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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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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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