Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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