They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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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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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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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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 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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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 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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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