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.
ALAN BRADLEYIf poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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