Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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