"Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone."

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Daniel Tammet

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“I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back”
“In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."”
“Life hereafter for God's children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies of life in Heaven for the saved and the blessed!”
“Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.”
“There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.”
“I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.”

Source : Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown
“Anyone know if the shuttles to Hell will have Wifi? Asking for a friend.”
“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be”

Source : Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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