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..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
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I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.
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