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 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 out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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