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.
ALAN BRADLEYAlthough it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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 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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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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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