Answering-venus Quote by Xi Chuan

“Night is the sleep of seven wax moths Dawn is the singing of five mermaids Noon is the scratching of three field mice Dusk…

— Xi Chuan

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

— William Faulkner

“She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...”

— Dawn Tripp

Make-up is such a huge fragment of my career and image.

— Shakti Mohan

“What fragment of truth will be mine?”

— Lia Hills

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

— Douglas Coupland

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

— Tobias Wolff

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of…

— W. S. Merwin

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas…

— Thomas Bernhard

“A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night”

— Emily St. John Mandel

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them.…

— Lucretius

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

— Lyn Hejinian