I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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 very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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