Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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 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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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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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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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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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