Mark Haddon Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Two, People

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Mar 25, 2012

• Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Answers, Literature

• At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

  Mark Haddon

  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

• I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Poetry Is, Wrapping

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

• A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

  Mark Haddon

  Real, Drama, People

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