To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEYAnyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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