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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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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 was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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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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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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