"There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Real Quotes #Numbers Quotes #And Love Quotes

“After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences.”
“Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.”
“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
“With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.”
“But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.”

Source : David Stove (2013). “On Enlightenment”, p.17, Transaction Publishers
“First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.”
“Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.”
“There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.”

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