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 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.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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