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.
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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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