Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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