"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed."

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Source : FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Apr 08, 2013

Mark Haddon

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Sunday Quotes

“There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.”
“It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower”

Source : Sarah Monette (2008). “The Mirador”, p.304, Penguin
“I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing.”
“Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.”
“No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.”
“Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”
“I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
“The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.”

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