One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
ALAN BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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 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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