Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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