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1. "Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky." ~ Michael Frayn
2. "..deceivers must expect to be deceived." ~ Michael Frayn
3. "The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite to be present when anything so American was being discussed." ~ Michael Frayn
4. "Perhaps the home I am homesick for is still there, after all." ~ Michael Frayn
5. "Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of ourbeloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world?" ~ Michael Frayn
6. "The third week of June, and there it is again: the same almost embarrassing familiar breath of sweetness that comes every year about this time. I catch it on the warm evening air as I walk past the well-ordered gardens in my quiet street, and for a moment I am a child again and everything before me - all of the frightening, half-understood promises of life." ~ Michael Frayn
7. "Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door..." ~ Michael Frayn
8. "Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me." ~ Michael Frayn
9. "But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less than each of us." ~ Michael Frayn
10. "Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums" ~ Michael Frayn
11. "Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life." ~ Michael Frayn
12. "He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed." ~ Michael Frayn
13. "Yes, and you've never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That's your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction, but you can no more see the beauty of them than the fish can see the beauty of the water" ~ Michael Frayn
14. "Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward but before the weather or the more suspicious trees have quite had the courage to follow them, and Kate and I are traveling north in a car crammed with food and books and old saucepans and spare pieces of furniture." ~ Michael Frayn
15. "A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green." ~ Michael Frayn
16. "I feel bad that I don't feel worse." ~ Michael Frayn
17. "Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities...Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics." ~ Michael Frayn
18. "I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again." ~ Michael Frayn
19. "And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna." ~ Michael Frayn

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I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me."
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