If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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 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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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