"People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you."

-- Mark Haddon

#Mean Quotes #Smell Quotes #People Quotes

“I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count”

Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.110, Penguin
“I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”
“I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.”
“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.”
“There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw”
“When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation, Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.”
“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”

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