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Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible. ↗

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.' ↗

— Emily Giffin

#bags #big #call #clutches #husband

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#art #being #destiny #friend #go

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#life #pieces #life

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#pieces #world #idea

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ↗

— Dave Barry

#end #game #pieces #possible #problem

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#another #being #being done #choreography #company

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#because #big #big problems #brahms #distressing