A Quote by Richard Dawkins

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins
English - Scientist
Born: March 26, 1941

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

Terry Pratchett

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Steve Martin

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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

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I used to wonder how anyone could treat a fellow human as God. I never understood why they would do this.

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I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

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