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And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

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But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

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At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.

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Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn't guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don't get along any more.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon

Born: September 26, 1962 (age 62)
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