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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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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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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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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