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.
ALAN BRADLEYAll 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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