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Them Quotes by Mark Haddon
- The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to…
- How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
- Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where…
- Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to…
- Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that…
- I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
- Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
- I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to…
- Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical…
- All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
- It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand…
- He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory…
- People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
- 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…
- And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into…
- Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
- Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it…
- And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's…
- One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening…
- I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to…
More Them Quotes
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster