I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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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 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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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