It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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