"If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing."

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Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

Matt Haig

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“Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.”
“What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.”

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“Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.”
“In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.”

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“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.”

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“I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.”
“How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.”
“Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.”

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