It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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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 was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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