“In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.”

— Mark Haddon , book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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English writer and illustrator 1962

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