"You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's……" — Matt Haig
"You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working."
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17 Quotes by Matt Haig
Matt Haig has 17 quotes on this site.
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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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End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of…
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Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
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Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do…
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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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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted…
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the…
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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first…
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted…
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught…
— Jimmy Carter
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a…
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And…
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and…
— James A. Baldwin
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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