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.
ALAN BRADLEYOne of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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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 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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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 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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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