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I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no? — Matt Haig

The night moves at the speed of panic. — Matt Haig

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig. — Vince Flynn

An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem. — Matt Haig

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us. — Matt Haig

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from. — Matt Haig

Anglers ... exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown

If God exists, what is He but a mathematician? — Matt Haig

A watched pot never boils. That's all you need to know about quantum physics. — Matt Haig

You gave up the universe for a life on the sofa?' 'I didn't realise that at the time. — Matt Haig

Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting. — Matt Haig

Unlike a book or a film depression doesn't have to be about something. — Matt Haig

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence. — Matt Haig

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, — Matt Haig

I love you, she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive. — Matt Haig

Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter. — Matt Haig

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it. — Matt Haig

Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything. — Matt Haig

You can clone human brains but not what is stored inside them — Matt Haig

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward

I prefer to think of it as burning down their crops. [when asked why he - a fervent anti-Communist - smoked Cuban cigars] — Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.

You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character. — Georgina Haig

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts. — Matt Haig

One life form's gold is another life form's tin can. — Matt Haig

'Lawrence of Arabia' is a film that anyone wanting to become an actor should watch at least six hundred times. — Sid Haig

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown

A fisherman is always hopeful
nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax. — Matt Haig

The Council's expanding the refuges, at least, but it's still nonsensical. — Francesca Haig

History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion. — Matt Haig

It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.) — Matt Haig

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us. — Matt Haig

Boring people stay alive. Aunt Eda said. — Matt Haig

Your brain is open. Never let it be closed. — Matt Haig

We are all potential depressives, but that is never going to be all we are. — Matt Haig

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. — Alexander Haig

To read, to seek, to know. — Matt Haig

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes. — Alexander Haig

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. — Matt Haig

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete. — Georgina Haig

The die, and so they have impatience. — Matt Haig

But stories aren't always lies. They are things stored in all our imaginations-hence the name stories-and it is the author's job to point them out. — Matt Haig

I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things. — Matt Haig

Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with. — Matt Haig

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out. — Matt Haig

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you'd be happy to die doing. — Matt Haig

I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake. — Matt Haig

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks — Roderick Haig-Brown

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction. — Matt Haig

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. — Matt Haig

It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver. — Matt Haig

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it. — Alexander Haig

Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear. — Matt Haig

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires. — Matt Haig

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. — Douglas Haig

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more. — Matt Haig

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive. — Matt Haig

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves. — Matt Haig

Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre. — Matt Haig

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. — Matt Haig

Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. — Matt Haig

Be alive. That is your supreme duty to the world. — Matt Haig

Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder. — Grange Lady Haig Rutan

Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt. — Matt Haig

Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved? — Matt Haig

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play. — Matt Haig

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation. — Matt Haig

It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See — Winston S. Churchill

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human. — Matt Haig

My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven. — Sid Haig

So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt. — Matt Haig

So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one. — Matt Haig

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on. — Matt Haig

The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality. — Matt Haig

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless. — Matt Haig

Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid. — Matt Haig

You shouldn't have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself. — Matt Haig

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are. — Matt Haig

Katherine is a lawyer, as I said, and she doesn't lie; the truth, however, after it passes through her lips can be unrecognizable. — Brian Haig

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. — Matt Haig

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them. — Matt Haig

To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take. — Roderick Haig-Brown

Pain is a debt paid off with time. — Matt Haig

But a human, in its own small way, was a kind of miraculous achievement, in mathematical terms. — Matt Haig

Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart. — Sid Haig

Marriage was a truly alien concept. There probably weren't enough editions of Cosmopolitan on the planet for me to ever understand it. — Matt Haig

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin. — Jeanette Winterson

27. Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have. — Matt Haig

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite. — Matt Haig

It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you. — Matt Haig

He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced. — Matt Haig

It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page. — Matt Haig

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love. — Matt Haig

Tough love doesn't work. Turns out that just good old 'love' is enough. — Matt Haig

Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination. — Matt Haig

It was a kind of laugh that made me wish there was no air for those manic waves to travel on and reach my ears. — Matt Haig

By thinking of the cloud, I thirsted for the raindrop. — Matt Haig

Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form. — Matt Haig