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Very Quotes by Mark Haddon
- And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of…
- Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
- There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
- For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
- From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
- If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt…
- 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 read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
- My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
- 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…
- I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
- 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…
- 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…
- On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere,…
- But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
- There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace…
- Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years…
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