The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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