The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYIf you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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 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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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 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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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