If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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