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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
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
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
Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.
— 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
Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.
— 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
'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
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
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
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
— Alexander Haig
To read, to seek, to know.
— 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
It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.
— Matt Haig