Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I 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.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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