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Broken Glass

«Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.»
«As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?»
«Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.»
«Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.»
«I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when I'm lonely I need the noises of destruction When there's nothing new»
«Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.»
«I continue to get further away from the usual painter?s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.»
«Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.»
«An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.»
«Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost»

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