Top 140 Graeme Simsion Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”

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2. “But why, why, why can’t people just say what they mean?”

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3. “Tegenwoordig haalde ik meer herinneringen uit mijn geheugenbank dan ik erin stopte.”

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4. “Research has shown that creativity is enhanced when performing straightforward mechanical tasks such as jogging, cooking and driving. Unobstructed thinking time is always useful.”

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5. “You are the world’s most perfect woman. All other women are irrelevant. Permanently. No Botox or implants will be required.”

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6. “You know something? On their deathbed, nobody ever wishes they’d spent more time at the office.”

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7. “Asperger’s syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.”

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8. “Excellent. The process for problem-solving is first to explain and explore the situation and objectives. We can ask questions and share information, but we can’t propose solutions. Then we require an incubation period for subconscious problem-solving, during which we undertake some mundane activity. As we have only one day total, I recommend we allow three to four hours. Then we co-operate on finding solutions.”

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9. “Sum omnia quae fuerunt suntque eruntque ego. “I am all that has been, is and will be.”

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10. “I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”

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11. “Highly intelligent people are often bullied. As a result of being different. That difference being high intelligence.”

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12. “Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”

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13. “Do you find me attractive?”... “I haven’t really noticed,” I told the most beautiful woman in the world.”

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14. “Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept.”

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15. “I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

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16. “I have heard the word ‘stunning’ used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.”

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17. “Rain Man! I had seen the film. I did not identify in any way with Rain Man, who was inarticulate, dependent, and unemployable. A society of Rain Men would be dysfunctional. A society of Don Tillmans would be efficient, safe, and pleasant for all of us.”

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18. “Watch some kids, watch them play. You’ll see they’re just little adults, only they don’t know all the rules and tricks yet.”

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19. “Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.”

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20. “When we get stuck, sometimes, instead of pushing at the problem, we need to look inward and question the things we believe, the stuff that might be blocking us.”

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21. “Of course, love has no respect for questionnaires. As The Rosie Project tells us.”

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22. “Habitual earliness is cumulatively a major waste of time.”

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23. “I am thirty-nine years old, tall, fit, and intelligent, with a relatively high status and above-average income as an associate professor. Logically, I should be attractive to a wide range of women. In the animal kingdom, I would succeed in reproducing.”

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24. “So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.”

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25. “You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. ‘I know what you look like.”

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26. “I didn’t have years. But I am a quick learner and was in human-sponge mode. I demonstrated.”

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27. “There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.”

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28. “Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from drowning, yet not make a donation that could save dozens of children from starvation.”

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29. “Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow.”

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30. “Difficulties are inevitable,” I said. “Major projects require persistence.”

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31. “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich laying bricks in Siberia probably generated a higher level of happiness than one day in the life of a retired rock star in a Manhattan penthouse with all the beer he could drink. Work was crucial to sanity. Which was probably why George continued to perform on the cruise ship.”

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32. “I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in ‘Lost in Space’ and ‘Star Trek’ were probably not representative of humans in general.”

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33. “I had long ago learned that withholding information from Rosie was unwise. The reduction in her stress levels was more than offset by the increase when she detected deceit.”

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34. “To the world’s most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.”

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35. “Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences.”

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36. “Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.”

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37. “I believe it is the duty of science, of humanity, to discover as much as we can. But I am a physical scientist, not a psychologist.”

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38. “I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.”

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39. “She was the beneficiary of my star-ness.”

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40. “I had become accustomed to being woken, and generally managed to fall asleep again within a few minutes. But the aggregate effect could not be ignored and I was forced to reschedule my bedtime to thirteen minutes earlier.”

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41. “I had feared that Rosie would not love me. Instead, it was I who could not love Rosie.”

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42. “After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.”

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43. “You can’t go through life not listening to music.”

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44. “Sustainable scallops with a mirepoix of carrots, celeriac, shallots, and bell peppers and a sesame oil dressing. The recommended accompanying beverage is pinot gris.”

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45. “Over the following week, I attempted to leave the Lydia situation for my subconscious to work on. Creative thinking benefits from an incubation period.”

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46. “How are you going to kiss a girl if you won’t share her ice-cream?”

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47. “See how it works? When men are the majority, they make the rules; when they’re a minority they get special treatment.”

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48. “I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others’ emotions and inability to experience their own.”

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49. “Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.”

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50. “I thought you were happy about having a baby.’ I was happy in the way that I would be happy if the captain of an aircraft in which I was travelling announced that he had succeeded in restarting one engine after both had failed. Pleased that I would now probably survive, but shocked that the situation had arisen in the first place, and expecting a thorough investigation into the circumstances.”

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