Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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