"Look at your hand. Its structure does not……" — Michael Frayn
"Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky."
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Michael Frayn
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16 Quotes by Michael Frayn
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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
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Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
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I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by…
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song -…
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It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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