Quote by Mark Haddon
I dont remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become

I dont remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. – Mark Haddon

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Use your imagination, and youll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. – Mark Haddon

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Imagination
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Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. – Mark Haddon

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respect
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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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Science
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. – Barbara Kingsolver

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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. – James Otis

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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope theyll do very well with it. – Larry Wall

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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. – Leonardo da Vinci

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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. – Epicurus

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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and dont have time for all that. – George Carlin

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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan

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Land really is the best art. – Andy Warhol

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