Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYOne that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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