Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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.
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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 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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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