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• A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of "thought." It is not "thought" which needs showing.

  Jasper Johns

  Ideas, Together, Needs

  Richard Francis, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns”, Abbeville Pr

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• Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick, and that's sad, man, you know. That's not makin' music; that's puttin' together puzzles, you know. Music should flow from you and it should be a force; it should be feeling, all feeling, man.

  Sonny Sharrock

  Cute, Music, Player

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• In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

  Jon Postel

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Class

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• Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Waiting, Finals

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• Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

  Jesse Kellerman

  Icons, Thought Provoking, Roaring

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• I'll never get why the earth is a puzzle that i'll never fit.

  Kid Cudi

  Earth, Fit

  Song: Do It Alone

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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, Pieces

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• Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

  David Blaine

  Beautiful, Creating, Magic

  Time Out Interview with Brett Martin, April 1, 1999.

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• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Artist, Order

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Dawn, Mystery, Humans

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Real, Needs, Answers

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “The Search for WondLa”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

  David Levithan

  Together, Pieces, Shapes

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK

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• Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Block, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Roots, Important, Trying

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.356, A&C Black

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• Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

  Richelle Mead

  Might, Territory, Experts

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1326, Penguin

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• I used to think of two people in love like that. Like puzzle pieces, fitting together. But it's not like that at all. Love pulls a part of you out, and it pulls a part of him - like taffy, stretching but not separating. The tendrils of each one wrap around the other, until they meld together. One, but not quite. Separate, but not quite.

  Tammara Webber

  Thinking, Two, People

  Tammara Webber (2013). “Here Without You”, p.82, Tammara Webber

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• We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Together, Pieces

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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Heart, Old Habits

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• If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Nature, Real, Science

  Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "The Development of Spatial Cognition" by Robert Cohen, 1985.

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• Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Honesty, Jigsaw Puzzles

  SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

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• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Interesting, Age, Passionate

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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• Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

  Martin Gardner

  Science, Skills, Brain

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• I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.

  Vanna White

  Clothes, Bored, Different

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