"I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

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“Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.”

Source : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics), Joan Robinson (1973). “After Keynes: Papers Presented to Section F (Economics) at the 1972 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science”, Wiley-Blackwell
“If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”
“I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.”

Source : Source: www.thepier.org
“The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.”

Source : "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
“I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.”
“Labor is the true standard of value.”
“You'll get back to where you came from.”

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