- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fragment Quotes
On the fragments that carry more than whole stories do.
These quotes find value in the incomplete — Jeffersonian democracy prized even as a mere fragment of its full ideal, and a writer's technique of building scenes the way memory actually works, one fragment at a time rather than in solid blocks.
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- Faulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020