Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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 always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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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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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 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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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