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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.
Mark Haddon
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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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