I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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 woke up before the plane landed.
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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 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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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