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.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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