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“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.”

“I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.”

Different Form Shapes Hundred Discovery Instance Spite Different Things Farms Vocabulary Vineyards Always Working Labourers

Author:Joan Miro

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Made Stills Seems Next Decision Vision Our Lives Shapes Draws Hundred Twenties Decades Cards Deck Indecision Revision

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.”

Ifs Way Years Book Philosophy Grows Growing Up Shapes Married Hundred Mature

Author:Richard Matheson

“The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.”

Giving Humans Littles Seems Form Silence Generations Shapes Hundred Standing Immortality Transitory Clamor

Author:Edwin Markham

“Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.”

Shapes Hundred Tattoo Anchors Footnotes

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.”

Firsts Looks Long Stills I Can Different Remember Night Imagine Sky Dog Arms Thousand Shapes Moon Hundred Circles Flats All Night Bosoms Thighs Vistas

Book:The Complete Cosmicomics

Source: The Complete Cosmicomics

“The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.”

Sides Thousand Shapes Limits Hundred Defined Reverse

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne