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333 Fragments quotes by 278 unique authors
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days,…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,…
— James Russell Lowell
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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where…
— Charles Dickens
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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its…
— Susan Sontag
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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
— Josiah Royce
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held…
— Israel Shenker
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling…
— Tamora Pierce
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This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
— Frederick Lenz
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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard…
— Joan D. Vinge
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We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves…
— Evaristo Nugkuag
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush…
— Julia Cameron
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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
— Charles Stewart Parnell
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
— Maggie Gallagher
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Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much…
— Alan Bradley
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I am a writer of fragments.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
— Jasper Johns
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Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
— Jonas Mekas
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But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how…
— Tana French
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My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a…
— Bill Viola
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Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered…
— Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds.…
— Novalis
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
— Nadine Gordimer
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You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things…
— Charles Kingsley
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