One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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 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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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 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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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