If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
ALAN BRADLEY
One 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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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