Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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I 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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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