I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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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 poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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