#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

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

— George Mercer Dawson

#fossils #found #fragments #had #recognisable

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fragments #many #moderns #origin #their

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

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

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

I am a writer of fragments. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#fragments #i #i am #writer