It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
ALAN BRADLEYIf poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Children 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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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