One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
ALAN BRADLEYIt makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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 had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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 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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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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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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