You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse. - David Leavitt
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
- David Leavitt
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection an… - David Leavitt
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection an…
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relati… - David Leavitt
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relati…
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possib… - David Leavitt
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possib…
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engin… - David Leavitt
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engin…
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect… - David Leavitt
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect…
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. Th… - David Leavitt
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. Th…
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close t… - David Leavitt
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close t…
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and… - David Leavitt
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and…
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