I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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.
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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 of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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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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