Ronald Sukenick quotes

“The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.”
-- Ronald Sukenick

Source : Ronald Sukenick (1975). “98.6: A Novel”, p.167, University of Alabama Press

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“If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.”
-- Ronald Sukenick

Source : Ronald Sukenick (1985). “In form, digressions on the act of fiction”, Southern Illinois University

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“The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.”
-- Ronald Sukenick

Source : Ronald Sukenick (1986). “The Endless Short Story”, p.39, University of Alabama Press

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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.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

“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.”

“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.”

“Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”

“Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.”

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.”

“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.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

“Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.”

“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.”

“The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.”