Pieces Quotes — Page 37

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]”

Men Fate Pieces

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Josh Smith

Artist

“It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.”

Feet Pieces Four

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John Cage

Composer, Musician

“The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.”

Firsts White

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Joan Didion

Author, Essayist

“The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.”

Lasts Adventure

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.”

Names Pieces Power

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Julian Barnes

Author

“We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?”

Progress Pieces Pace

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Juliette Lewis

Actress, Producer

“With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.”

Different Pieces Tvs

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.”

Pieces Essentials Produce

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Joan Didion

Author, Essayist

“There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.”

Writing Pieces Leaving

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Joan Didion

Author, Essayist

“Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.”

Firsts Pieces Nonfiction

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Joan Didion

Author, Essayist

“Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.”

Thinking Simple Pieces

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Jennifer Ellison

Actress

“The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.”

Pieces Scary Cake

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