I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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 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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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