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"Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you"
"There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last."
"It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay."
"Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury."
"The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed."
"A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order."
"What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not."
"I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason."
"One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives."
"I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form."
"You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time."
"History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it."
"Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world."
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"
"Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything."
"My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense."
"Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power."
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
"Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce."
"One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen."
