Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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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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