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"Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own."
"Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him."
"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
"I always write the pieces I want to write."
"Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given."
"Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on."
"If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape."
"I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead."
"There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema."
"When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are."
"If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together."
"Not only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself."
"A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody."
"I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment."
"The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh."
"America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature."
"Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily."
"The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever."
"The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the very rich mineral resources of the region. A lot of them are backing militias which are fighting one other to gain control of the resources or a piece of the resources."
"If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish."
