"I want my name to mean me."

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Mark Haddon

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“Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.”

Source : "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.
“The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.”
“It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.”
“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

Source : "Sojourner Truth: A Self-made Woman". Book by Victoria Ortiz, 1974.
“I always wanted to eat with a Negro,â€ Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,â€ Lula said. â€œSo I guess this works out good.”
“Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.”
“I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.”

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