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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. ↗

— William Hague

#over #people #prepared #see #time

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#irony #layers #paradox #simple #surface

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#come #conservatory #different #different parts #england

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#city #coming #i #multimedia #music

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#i #married #our #same #secret

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#different #does #frustrating #held #honest

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#around #audience #dance #enter #go

Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#because #bounced #everywhere #go #going