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Mark Haddon

"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"The last good time always comes."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"Life is a journey. If you can't walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations."

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
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"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
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"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
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"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
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"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
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"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
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"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed."
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"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
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"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
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