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Mark Haddon Quotes

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 26, 1962

Topics

Better Mean Two Fiction Only Most

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.

Insurance Now Prove Will IRS

If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

Children Optimism Doing You Give

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Government Because Legitimate Merely

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

Lie Golf Bad Never Cart Who

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Success Man Nobody Self-Made Who He

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

Jonathan Tropper

Work Experience People Discomfort

I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.

Love Money Fun Happy Giving Doing

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Myself Drive Ability Bored Get Then

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

Antonio Damasio

Time Personality Step Identity Brain

Protestants attacked Catholics during the 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia. Guess what that was about? Anti-immigrant sentiment. Back then, it was the influx of Irish Catholics into the city. Now, it's Donald Trump clinging to a bygone notion of Protestant ascendancy and nativist sentiments, when mainline Protestantism is on the wane in the U.S.

City Back Donald Trump Philadelphia

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

Myself Me Never High Things Level

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

Immigration Too Much Will More Years

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