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 BRADLEYThen when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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