I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
ALAN BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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