#fragments

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#everybody #fallible #fragments #how #join

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#around #bone #company #containing #crash

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#director #film #fragments #moments #same

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

#fossils #found #fragments #had #recognisable

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

#conflict #difference #fragments #inequality #never

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#also #beautiful #brings #construction #dash

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#better #could #fragments #i #make

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fragments #ideas #live #longer #mind

And many a day's hours were like that. As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere in order to torment it slowly with needles. I felt each sharp prick of his playing, and it was: as if a rain fell on me in which all things change. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fragments #intimate-notes #letters #marilyn-monroe #poems