To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEY
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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