Because Quote by Mark Haddon

“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 later.”

Mark Haddon

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But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

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“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.”

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And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

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You love someone, you've got to let something go.

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“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I”

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“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

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“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing…

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I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our…

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“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out…

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