A Quote by Mark Haddon

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

Mark Haddon

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Asleep Falling Falling Asleep Funny Half Like Moments People Smile Sofa Stops Them Things Those Uneasy Up Wince

Quote Author

Mark Haddon
English - Novelist
Born: September 26, 1962

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Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Leonardo da Vinci

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George Carlin

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Tahir Shah

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Missy Elliott

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Maria Bamford

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Sally Ride

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Ed Reed

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R. D. Laing

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Kerr

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

Flann O'Brien

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Yoko Ono

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