Ronald Sukenick famous quotes
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The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.
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If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.
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The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.
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People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.
-- Ronald Sukenick
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Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
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Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
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Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
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Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.
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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
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Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
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Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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