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“If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?”

Ifs Limits Cooking Edges

Author:Ferran Adria

“The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.”

People Body Literature Shapes Limits Edges

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.”

Whole Universe Numbers Limits Infinite Edges Defined Infinity Atoms Void

Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.”

Knows Children Enough Desire Universe Language Fire Cutting Limits Edges Knives Conform Regularity Inexorable Capricious Soon Enough Irregularity

Author:Max Black

“Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.”

Bigs Issues Source Limits Empathy Edges Friction

Author:Leslie Jamison

“The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?”

Humans Body Goal Natural Ability Levels Technology Cutting Generations Limits Tools Mere Edges Available Faster Evolve Human Body Exceed New Generation Cutting Edge Amputees

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.”

Thinking Long Two Ends Would Be Eye Half Team Shapes Moon Creatures Limits Shadow Died Size Edges Boundaries Gentle Borders Horizon Troll Blurry Long Shadows Half Moon Patrolling

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”

Want Important Remember Study Like You Please Taste Limits Mouths Edges Pushing Sawyer

Book:The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut

Source: The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut

“Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.”

Knows Children Made Home Mistake Darkness Limits Weapons Edges Terrified Ruined Refugee Deceived Starving Made A Mistake Darkness Within

Author:John le Carre

“Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.”

Should Stills Seems Sun Limits Green Shining Edges Grass Dirt Vivid Life And Happiness

Author:Lauren Oliver

“The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.”

World Consciousness Imagine Poet Limits Findings Perception Edges Nothingness Acres

Book:The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

Source: The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays