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I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

~Daniel Tammet

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Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

~Daniel Tammet

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One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

~Daniel Tammet

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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

~Daniel Tammet

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My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

~Daniel Tammet

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It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

~Daniel Tammet

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Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I'm the way I am. But if they could make me 'normal', I wouldn't want that. I've been like this for so long, it's what makes me .

~Daniel Tammet

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 31st, 1979

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