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• It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

  Dan Simmons

  Understanding, Lasts, Welcome

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.32, Spectra

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• Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star
  Biggest puzzle from afar
  How unlike the other ones
  Brighter than a billion suns
  Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star
  How I wonder what you are.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Science, Afar

  George Gamow (1965). “Matter, Earth, and Sky”

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• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Together, Wheels

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• The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.

  Oliver Lodge

  Science, Discovery, Long

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• I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems that matter to me, it stuns me how much the presence of the heart-in all its forms-is endlessly available there. To experience ourselves in an important way just knocks me out. It puzzles me why people have given that up for cleverness. Some of them are ingenious, more ingenious than I am, but so many of them aren't any good at being alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, People, Important

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• In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

  Amit Ray

  Giving, Solve, Equations

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• Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.

  J. Robbins

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

  Michael Loceff

  Math, Thinking, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Games, Creating, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

  Aaron Stanford

  Giving, Shows, Solutions

  "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

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• What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.

  Paul Tournier

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.

  Catherine Keener

  Order, Dinner, Waitress

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• We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

  Richard Leakey

  Men, Light, Connections

  "A Wealth of Human Fossils Could Soon Be Destroyed". Interview with Stefan Aust and Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2005.

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• Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Time, Writing, Thinking

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• I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.

  Tim Schafer

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Murder Mysteries, Curiosity

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• Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

  M. C. Escher

  Education, Art, Jigsaw Puzzles

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• My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

  Lisa Gardner

  Parent, Secret, Vices

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• I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Patient, Impatience

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• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  Walter Murch

  Views, Film, Point Of View

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• I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

  Brian Jacques

  Dog, Enjoy, Crosswords

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• But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

  Sigmund Freud

  Effort, Affection, Conscious

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• I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

  Graham Nelson

  Trying, Way, Easy

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• I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

  Matt Sharp

  Writing, Together, Pieces

  "Ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp reuniting rentals for 'the long haul'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2006.

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