"I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish."

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Source : "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, 2003.

Mark Haddon

#Believe Quotes #Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”
“What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.”
“We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.”
“You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint.”
“Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books”
“Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.”
“I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
“The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.”

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