“Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.” WritingBookWholeAmbitionPagesSentencesCursed Author:Joseph Joubert
“To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.” IfsKnowsBookSelfWholeFoundKnow HowAwarenessOneselfSentencesSupremeVolumeParagraph Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship
“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.” WayDoeArtWholePainTogetherLeftDifficultConsciousnessTakenExpressionShapesUniqueSentencesTerritoryPropositionsLeft AloneLeft OutTogether AgainIncomprehension Author:Jacques Barzun
“You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.” WritingTryingWholeEyeHurtPiecesSentencesReleaseSectionsPerfectionismParagraphNew Eyes Author:Anne Lamott
“Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.” NeedsWritingEndsWholeStoriesPiecesJourneyFrontsFiguresNotesBoxesSentencesWhole LifeLandscapePuzzlesSticky Author:Ashly Lorenzana