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.
ALAN BRADLEYIf poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 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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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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