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.
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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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.
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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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