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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: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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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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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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And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.
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What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
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You love someone, you've got to let something go.
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I think good books have to make a few people angry.
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...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
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The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
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And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.
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