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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"I'd laugh, only my stupid lizard brain has disabled the laugh button for now. I'm too frozen up with tension.I am owed so much laughter. Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that last twenty-four hours."


"I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff."


"You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away."


"My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!"


"If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?"


"The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life."


"Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards."
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