Mind Quotes by Mark Haddon

8 Mind quotes by Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon’s mind‑themed snippets carry his observational wit into personal thought. The brief set feels like a series of quick, relatable observations that strike a chord with everyday mental experiences.

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Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut,…

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And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to…

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“He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On…

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I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car…

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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be.…

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He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves…

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“How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his…

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At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of…

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But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

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“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.”

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And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave…

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And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

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You love someone, you've got to let something go.

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“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I”

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“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

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“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing…

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I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our…

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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in…

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“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out…

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A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC…

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I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

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“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was…

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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

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