I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYNot 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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