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Fortunately I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.
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What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.
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I have heard the word 'stunning' used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.
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Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.
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The answer came to me as I was boning a quail...
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Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. The elusive . . . Sat-is-fac-tion.
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It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you.
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Contrary to popular belief, alcohol does not destroy brain cells.
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Whatever behavior modifications you require from me are a trivial price to pay for have you as my partner
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Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept
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Hate causes distress, potentially leading to mental and physical health problems. Adolescents
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Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world.
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I shook my head to test for a hangover but it seemed that my alcohol-processing enzymes had done their job adequately.
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Before sharing interesting information that has not been solicited, think carefully about whether it has the potential to cause distress.
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Correct. The male instinct is to cheat. You need to overcome it.''Women accept it as long as you don't embarrass them with it. Look at France. — Graeme Simsion
Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.
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I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.
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All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.
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How are you going to kiss a girl if you won't share her ice cream? p.203 The Rosie Project
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I didn't have years. But I am a quick learner and was in human-sponge mode. I demonstrated.
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Do not mess with this man's threads!
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You know what my doctor said about that book you've been reading? Give it to someone you hate.
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Since I had never been so sexually attracted to a woman before, I was suddenly compelled to examine her ears.
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We're scientists," I reminded him. "We shouldn't be defeated by problems. If we think hard enough, a solution will present itself.
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The great thing about homo sapiens is that we've got a brain that can override our instincts. If we want it to.
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But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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I had feared that Rosie would not love me. Instead, it was I who could not love Rosie.
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I began the second half of my life by making coffee.
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What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?' 'I've got crap in my life that I wish I hadn't. And I'm not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense?
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I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time.
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Time has been redefined. Previous rules no longer apply. Alcohol is hereby declared mandatory in the Rosie Time Zone.
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He knew me well enough to know that once an emotion was identified,
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If you shut yourself down, you're wasting two days of your life that someone is trying to make exciting and productive and fun for you.
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we need to be vigilant that emotions do not cripple us.
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Since when do women discuss anything explicitly?" said
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I know this song!'Rosie laughed.
'If you didn't, that'd be the final proof that you're from Mars. — Graeme Simsion
Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow.
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Most adults with Asperger's syndrome don't know they have it.
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antipathy toward
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I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she's a bit full of herself.
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I knew so much shit and I still couldn't fix myself.
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So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.
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Watch some kids, watch them play. You'll see they're just little adults, only they don't know all the rules and tricks yet.
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If she's a psychology student, she'll love talking about herself.
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In marriage reason frequently had to take second place to Harmony
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Her name's Inge," said David. "She's Lithuanian.
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You know something? On their deathbed, nobody ever wishes they'd spent more time at the office.' It
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After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.
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Why do people value others' time so little? Now we would have the inevitable small talk. I could have spent fifteen minutes at home practicing aikido.
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It was obvious that Rosie was confused by emotions, and I respected her attempt to overcome them.
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I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
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I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.
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And the pursuit of fun does not lead to overall contentment. Studies have shown this consistently.
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Unwanted events occur and you lack certain skills for minimizing the personal impact.
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You can't go through life not listening to music.
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There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.
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And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept, but to find someone who might accept me.
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The Apricot Ice-cream Disaster had cost a whole evening of my life, compensated for only by the information about simulation algorithms.
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I believe it is the duty of science, of humanity, to discover as much as we can. But I am a physical scientist, not a psychologist. The
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Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.
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I need a minute to think, she said. I automatically started the timer on my watch. Suddenly Rosie started laughing.
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Humans should be permanently under development.
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Tickets! Tickets to Disneyland. All problems solved!
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Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway.
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Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.
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You are the world's most perfect woman. All other women are irrelevant. Permanently. No Botox or implants will be required.
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What must do the hard thing? He who can.
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This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.
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Time's up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion.
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But I had concluded that being myself, with all my intrinsic flaws, was more important than having the thing I wanted most.
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I never watch sports. Ever. The reasons are obvious - or should be to anyone who values their time.
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I was not thirsty, but I was pleased to be offered alcohol.
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I sat beside Rosie, pretending to be her friend.
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