"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."

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Source : Michael Frayn (2013). “Constructions”, p.69, Faber & Faber

Michael Frayn

#Moving Quotes #Hands Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Thereâ€™s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What weâ€™ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.”
“I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.”
“I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.”
“Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.”
“I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.”
“You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.”
“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”
“Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough”

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