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• Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  People, Secret, Thrill

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Beautiful, Ignorant, Immature

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
  Nature makes no jumps.
  [Natura non facit saltus]
  All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Relationship, Country, World

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• A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Civilization

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Dream, Hurt

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• Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Reality, Views, Language

  Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.29, Oxford University Press

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• Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Past, Joy, Aroma

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  Jennifer Stone

  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.

  John Barlas

  Stars, Prayer, Heart

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• When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

  Daniel Webster

  Time, Eye, Blood

  Second Speech on Foote's Resolution, U.S. Senate, 26 Jan. 1830

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• Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

  Jim Morrison

  Doors, Cities, Kind

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• Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Genius, Censorship, Joyce

  Nadine Gordimer (2011). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.411, A&C Black

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• The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

  Novalis

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 114, 1798.

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• New things had to be made out of fragments.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Made, New Things

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Kate Traumann Steinitz, California. University, Los Angeles. Art Galleries (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: retrospective : March-April 1965”

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• My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

  Bill Viola

  Writing, Simple, Might

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• Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

  Jonas Mekas

  Two, Long, Video

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2006.

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• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  Evaristo Nugkuag

  Moving, Cutting, Rights

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• The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

  Mark Twain

  Clever, Lying, Blood

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• My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

  David Bowie

  Play, Roles, Actors

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• This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Islands

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• Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

  Gore Vidal

  Desire, States, Pursuit

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Mean, Kids, Focus

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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• Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

  Ann Leckie

  Together, Identity, Ordinary

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• And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Photography, Reality, Games

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