"When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician."

-- Mark Haddon

#Literature Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Caught Quotes

“Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.”
“History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.”
“Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.”

Source : "Carine Roitfeld: 'I want to show fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2013.
“Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better. It's a moral obligation to try to improve things a little bit at a time.”
“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.”
“I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.”
“I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.”

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