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Some Quotes by Mark Haddon
- Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
- For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
- Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very…
- I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
- I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
- Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or…
- And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And…
- Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and…
- At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations…
- But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- The next time someone gets in my face to fight, I'll show them pictures on my phone of an ant I once… — Nikhil Saluja
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz