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 BRADLEYChildren 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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