#up

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#dreams #genius #snow #up #who

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#free speech #go #i #marks #paper

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#dreadful #end #eyes #frailties #i

I don't think that I've ever been a backup. ↗

— Joe Namath

#been #ever #i #think

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#long #long time #mandate #people #rebuild

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#care #child #child care #control #economic