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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Mark Haddon

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.
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On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
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Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
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...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
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I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
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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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