I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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