Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYAs 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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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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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 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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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 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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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