And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEYThe 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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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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 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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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