Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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 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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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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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