"Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of……" — Matt Haig
"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. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins."
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17 Quotes by Matt Haig
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Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
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If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
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If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
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Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.
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The possibility of pain is where love stems from
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The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.
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Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
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You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have…
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Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
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This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt…
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There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
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