Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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