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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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 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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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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 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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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