"As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick."
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"Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to."
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"You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist."
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"Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
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"Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall."
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"Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will."
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"A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!"
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"Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod."
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"I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role."
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"Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed."
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"You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good."
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"Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks."
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"The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer."
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"Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion."
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