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.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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