Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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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 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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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