--- title: "1 Sand Grain Quotes By Michael Frayn" description: "1 Sand Grain quotes by Michael Frayn. Plus more from Michael Frayn and more Sand Grain sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/michael-frayn-14823_books_we-can-t-stop-reading-compulsively-we-fi_1886399.png" --- > [“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of cards. We look up at the shifting vapours in the sky, and see faces, lost cities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/we-can-t-stop-reading-compulsively-we-find-ourselves-reading/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/michael-frayn-14823_books_we-can-t-stop-reading-compulsively-we-fi_1886399.png) ## More by Michael Frayn > [“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case to myself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/odd-though-all-these-dealings-of-mine-with-myself-first-i-ve-agreed-a/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/a-man-sits-in-his-car-at-the-traffic-lights-waiting-for-them-to-go/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Why did \*I\* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/why-did-i-lock-the-door-why-did-you-lock-the-door-someone-locked-the/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/when-anyone-says-they-often-think-something-it-means-they-ve-just/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [I feel bad that I don't feel worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/i-feel-bad-that-i-don-t-feel-worse/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Perhaps the home I am homesick for is still there, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/perhaps-the-home-i-am-homesick-for-is-still-there-after-all/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/it-s-funny-there-s-nothing-that-stops-you-laughing-like-the-sight-of/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/he-felt-lonely-his-solitude-was-thrown-into-relief-by-being-observed/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/yes-and-you-ve-never-been-able-to-understand-the-suggestiveness-of/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/i-ve-never-written-a-fiction-before-about-real-people-i-read/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/early-spring-yes-it-s-one-of-those-cautiously-hopeful-days-at-the/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/bohr-heisenberg-i-have-to-say-if-people-are-to-be-measured-strictly/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/mathematics-becomes-very-odd-when-you-apply-it-to-people-one-plus-one/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life’s over. Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are, we’re gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/bohr-before-we-can-lay-our-hands-on-anything-our-life-s-over/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) > [“The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frayn/the-almost-egregiously-english-couple-cedric-and-rosamund-chailey-had/) [Michael Frayn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frayn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sand-grain/michael-frayn/#itemlist", "name": "1 Sand Grain Quotes By Michael Frayn", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We can't stop reading. 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