The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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