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• I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

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  Book, Thinking, Stories

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.55, Canongate Books

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• I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

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  Wonder, Has Beens, Ifs

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

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  Writing, Trying, Fiction

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

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  Making Love, Touching, Together

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• Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

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  Memories, Water, Arguing

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• One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

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  Girl, Reading, Writing

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• In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

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  Real, Mean, Stuff Happens

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.20, Canongate Books

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• Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

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  Animal, Dangerous World, People

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

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  Needs, Problem, Beginning Writers

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories”, p.215, Canongate Books

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• Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

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  Real, Book, Ideas

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.134, Canongate Books

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• But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

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  Way, Metaphor, Mathematics

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.26, Canongate Books

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