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"The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished."
"What love commences can be finished by God alone."
"I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet."
"It is finished, is never said of us"
"this time has finished me."
"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."
"The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished."
"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."
"Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed."
"Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished."
"I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it"
"Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished."
"The one thing finished in this hasty world."
"I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new."
