Matt Haig Quotes

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• Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
• If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
• If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
• Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.
• The possibility of pain is where love stems from
• The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.
• End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to…
• Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
• Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not.…
• You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.
• Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
• This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden…
• There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
• Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
• Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light…
• Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes…
• Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference.…

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