To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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 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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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