Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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