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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What… — Wendell Berry
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my… — Yayoi Kusama
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke… — Jenny Holzer
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going… — Damien Hirst
She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I… — Brad Paisley
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of… — Herman Melville
It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you. — Irwin Corey
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan
Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece. — Rebecca Lobo
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece… — Abraham Lincoln
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors.… — John Redwood
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change… — Stanislaw Ulam
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from… — Teju Cole
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — Ansel Adams
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct… — Northrop Frye
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. — David Antin
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no… — Edward Abbey
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're… — Zadie Smith
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? — William Dean Howells
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece… — Stephen Shore
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. — Laura Marling
I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down… — Stephan Pastis

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