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.
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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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 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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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 frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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 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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