To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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