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• The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

  C. S. Lewis

  Drama, Reading, Doctrine

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

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• Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Needs, Ends

  Science Fiction and Fantasy World Interview, www.sffworld.com. May 17, 2006.

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• Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Giving, Imagination, Focus

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• I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Painting, Window

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• I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

  Harry Patch

  War, Fighting, Soldier

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• A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

  Robert Bresson

  Editing, Actors, Pieces

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• We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Real, Character, Men

  Maria Edgeworth “Castle Rackrent”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

  Doris Lessing

  Life, Phases, Terrible

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

  Jean Edward Smith

  War, Italian, Government

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• I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Reading, Kids, Bored

  "Movie Executive Harvey Weinstein". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 28, 2011.

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• Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Song, Thinking, Funny Things

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Records, Rooms

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

  John Marin

  Sides, Finishing, Boat

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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• The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

  John French Sloan

  Artist, May, Firsts

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• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  Keith Crown

  Order, Ideas, Two

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• Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.

  John Darnielle

  Wise, Artist, People

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• Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "The Ballot or The Bullet". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman, (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Doctors, Years

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• Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Home, Fields

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1853). “Memoirs of the Rev. George Whitefield: To which is Appended an Extensive Collection of His Sermons and Other Writings”, p.243

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• The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

  Gloria Estefan

  Sorry, Artist, Hands

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• My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

  George Harrison

  Drinking, Kids, Night

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• Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, People, Political

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.444, VM eBooks

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• Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

  Demosthenes

  People, March, Remember

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