If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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 is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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