Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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 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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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