Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 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.
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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 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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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