“If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”
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Vladimir Nabokov 193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
“One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world…”
Kim Harrison
(1966) Pseudonym
Source: A Fistful of Charms
Alice Oswald
(1966) British poet
Get Writing (2004), as quoted in Modern Women Poets (2005) by Deryn Rees-Jones, p. 392
Context: Poems, like dreams, have a visible subject and an invisible one. The invisible one is the one you can't choose, the one that writes itself. Not a message that comes at the end of the poem, more like a pathological condition that deforms every word – a resonance, a manner of speaking, a nervous tic, a pressure. And this invisible subject only shows up when you're speaking the language that you speak when no one is there to correct or applaud you. Remembering that language is the whole skill of writing well.
Doris McClellan, Chapter 3, p. 54
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Alan Turing
(1912–1954) British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Variant: Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.