Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Mark Haddon 35
English writer and illustrator 1962Related quotes

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