Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image,… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
“During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Walking into my room, I turned and caught his gaze, “But you’re good at walking away, so you obviously haven’t changed.” Pointing… — M.R. Field Copy Share Image
…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
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