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.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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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 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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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 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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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