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Mark Haddon Quotes

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone People Someone Madness Happen

When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic, and you feel really close to that group of people.

People Feel You Group Ground Get

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

Heart Me Evil America Will Indians

I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue.

Food I Am Losing Destination Doing

The first few days without a cellphone were difficult. I felt liberated from the static of Facebook and Twitter but feared that I had missed some email or call that someone had died.

Someone Missed Difficult First Email

My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.

Better Matter Always Where Get Been

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Louis Zamperini

Speak First Reason Kindergarten Got

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

Future Children Past Present Enjoy

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Life Smile Good Sunshine Flowers

When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.

Jose Antonio Vargas

People Fighting Immigration Talk

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Donald Ray Pollock

Music Writing Listen Monster Magnet

I think - I hope - that we're going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it's not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It's going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.

Christian Pulisic

Hope Team Think Soccer Country Lost

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

Men Simple Intelligence Evolution

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