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.
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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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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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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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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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