Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“I want my name to mean me.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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English writer and illustrator 1962Related quotes

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“So what? I'm sorry. What do you want me to do? My name's Messiah, but I can't work miracles.”
In Brasília, on 28 April 2020, after being told by reporters that Brazil had achieved a record 474 COVID-19-related deaths in a day. 'So what?': Bolsonaro shrugs off Brazil's rising coronavirus death toll https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/so-what-bolsonaro-shrugs-off-brazil-rising-coronavirus-death-toll. The Guardian (29 April 2020).
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Mi nombre, más que llamarme, me recuerda mi nombre.
Voces (1943)

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
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Address at a Swedish Colonial Society luncheon in Philadelphia (9 April 2001).
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