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• And I try to piece the puzzle of the universe, Split an eight of shrooms just so I could see the universe !

  Kid Cudi

  Eight, Trying, Splits

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• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Practice, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• This early piece of the morning is mine.

  Wallace Stegner

  Morning, Mines

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.5, Modern Library

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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 is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

  Wendell Berry

  Girl, Grief, Dark

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• 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 works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Sculpture, Neurosis

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• 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 but isn't!

  Jenny Holzer

  Thinking, People, Painting

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• 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 out drinking.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Drinking, Going Out

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• 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 feeling.

  Herman Melville

  God, Broken, Feelings

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.212, Northwestern University Press

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• 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 want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

  Brad Paisley

  Running, Hair, Jeans

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• It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

  Irwin Corey

  Change, Growth, Starting Anew

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• The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Play, Symphony, Starting Over

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• Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Basketball, Centerpieces

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• 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 in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Birthday, Hands, Cake

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• 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. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

  John Redwood

  Should Have, Design, Risk

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• 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 the course of human affairs.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Change, Paper, Surprise

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• 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 the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

  Teju Cole

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

  Ansel Adams

  Important, Want, Photographer

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• 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 it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Black And White, Opposites

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• 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

  World, Entertainment, Debate

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• The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

  Edward Abbey

  Insolence, Repetition, Theorems

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• 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 society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• 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 one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• 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 that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

  Martin Amis

  Running, Dream, Moving

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• 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 going to bring hair and makeup, it'll take about five hours.' And I said, 'Well, if it was Ian McEwan, would it take about five hours? Would there be hair and makeup? Cause if that's not the case, then don't bring the hair and makeup.' So, it's fascinating that they just assume: it's a young woman, she must want to be photographed for five hours. She must have nothing better to do than delight in trying on all your shoes. But it's not the case.

  Zadie Smith

  Makeup, Phones, Hair

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• How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

  William Dean Howells

  Fall, Good Luck, Luck

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Of Literature”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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