Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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