Alan Bradley Quotes, Children Quotes, Father Quotes

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

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The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

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If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

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

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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - 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'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, 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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