One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Then 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.
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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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