They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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