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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
Douglas Coupland / Novelist
Eastern
North America
Fragment
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Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
Jasper Johns / Artist
Consciousness
Intention
Mind
Fragment
Small
Involves
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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Milan Kundera / Writer
Existence
Fragments
Human Existence
Reason
Unknown
Literary
Fragment
Literary Work
Reveals
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I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.
Alexander Volkanovski /
Broken
Bad Back
Disc
Fragment
Injuries
Nerve
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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Charles Stewart Parnell / Political Leader
England
Ireland
Ireland And The Irish
Should
Treated
Fragment
Geographical
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
Laurence Sterne / Novelist
Smile
Men
Laughing
Laughter
Life Time Man
Adds
Fragment
Laughs
Persuaded
Smiles
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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
Josiah Royce / Philosopher
Glimpse
Hints
Individual
Individual Life
Life Is
Moments
Present Life
Visible
Life Best Life Is A
Beginning
Fragment
Hint
Life Is A
Present
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My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
Bill Viola / Video Artist
Might
Simple
Writing
Fragment
Poem
Simple Way
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Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.
W. S. Merwin / Poet
Faulty
Fragment
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
Donald Johanson / Anthropologist
Hands
Isolated
Skulls
Teeth
Arm
Associated
Rare
Extremely
Fragment
Jaw
Normally
Skull
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The more we can personalise, the more the market can fragment, because of all the availability that streaming presents. Things become old sooner. That's terrifying.
Julien Baker /
Availability
Streaming
Sooner
Fragment
Terrifying
Presents
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Fernand Leger / Painter
Enlargement
Enormous
Giving
Personality
Plastic
Vehicle
Entirely
Fragment
Lyric
Object
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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip Levine / Poet
Commonplace
Eternity
Ordinary
Pay Attention
Appears
Observed
Fragment
Transform
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
Abbott L. Lowell /
Achieve
Regard
Scholar
Approaches
Discover
Fragment
Striving
Pattern
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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
Joan D. Vinge / Author
Goddess
Myth
Perfect
Writing
Escaped
Fragment
Springboard
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When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Accounts
Awake
Crime
Ideas
Memories
Night
Unreliable
Fragment
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I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.
Dries Van Noten / Fashion Designer
Coincidence
Elements
Prefer
Fragment
Just Something
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Edgar Quinet /
Humanity
Law
Moral
Ought
Past
Future World Past
Future Humanity World
Bear
Composed
Fragment
Possesses
Whoever
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It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad.
Charles Kennedy / British Politician
Aftermath
Baghdad
Remarkable
September
Terrorism
Tragedy
Coalition
Fragment
Strike
Successfully
Unilateral
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Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
Jay Parini /
Belonging
Bones
Burial
Distrust
Excitement
Baptist
Cross
Fragment
James
Shroud
Supposedly
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin / Author
Life
Time
Acquire
Human Beings
Illumination
Instant
People
Staggering
Scale
Beings
Complete
Developments
Few
Fragment
Small
Laborious
Mosaic
Receive
Small Scale
Successive
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Aspect
Exquisite
Imaginative
Noble
Painting
Spiritual
Touch
Channels
Fragment
Glass
Primary
Truths
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Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
Simon Mcburney / Actor
Imagination
Driven
Movement
Subject Matter
Tv
Call
Collective
Fragment
Subject
Text
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Pope Paul Vi /
Art
Crystals
Exterior
Hardness
Human Life
Lust
Luster
Regularity
Rigidity
Life Art Work
Considered
Crystal
Deepest
Devoid
Facet
Life Work Art
Fragment
Interior
Meaning
Offer
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
Kazuo Ishiguro / Novelist
Fall
Fluid
Memories
Mimicking
Scene
Writing
Writer
Apart
Works
Fragment
Solid
Memory
Took
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Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.
Julia Cameron / Teacher
Limited Time
Trying
Unlimited
Writing
Time Great Way
Account
Fragment
Great Deal
Page
Procrastinate
Rush
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Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in.
Heidi Hammel /
Atmosphere
Burning
Collision
Cosmic
Dust
Hitting
Shooting
Tiny
Asteroid
Comet
Fragment
Hits
Sized
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
Tamora Pierce / Writer
Dream
Eight
Father
Pages
Twins
Writing
Fragment
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