“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”
Source: Revolutionary Road
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“That’s what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.”
Audrey Niffenegger book The Time Traveler's Wife
Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), p. 249
“Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
Source: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre
“On Our Inability To Do Much.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1972) "Structured Programming", Chapter title in O.J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare. Academic Press, 1972 ISBN 0122005503.
1970s
“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
William Faulkner book Light in August
Source: Light in August
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Through the Zombie Glass
