I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

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Mark Haddon was a contemporary English writer and illustrator. Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour
  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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