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inability Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes about inability
01
“At least the four of them are safe at last. AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ... I have no mouth. And I must scream.”
02
“The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
03
“By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings. But only in my head. I have never spoken one single word.”
04
“Here was another peculiar Trump attribute: an inability to see his actions the way most others saw them. Or to fully appreciate how people expected him to behave.”
05
“Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.”
06
“Oompa Loompas can’t get walnuts out of walnut shells in one piece. They always break them in two. Nobody except squirrels can get walnuts whole out of walnuts shells every time.”
07
I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
Source: Chapter 21, Paragraph 63
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