To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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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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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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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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