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The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
Slow down, simplify and be kind.
How can you break that which bends?
Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Over the years she had learned to fold down rising emotion just as she would fold the clean bedsheets, the sheet growing smaller and tighter with each pass until all that remained of that wide wrinkled expanse of cotton was a hard closed-in square.
rolled down. As I
I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back.
Make it whole, and it will rise whole. That's your first lesson of the day.
Fill a space in a beautiful way.
Form on the floor. All
Simplicate and add more lightness.
The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can't make smooth, no matter how hard you try.
I'm givin' more flat lines to niggas than loose-leaf.
As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.
It had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness
The Earth is round but everything on it is flat.
Hey soda girl. You're flat.
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful.
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
Ties are straightened and expressions banished.
Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
Talkers expand like bread dough.
So you like to stretch the truth?" he asked me. "Stretch, fold, spindle, staple or cut, whatever it takes to get it to fit just right".
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.
The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
I turned my attention back to Jenn and Jackson, and continued my original course, meandering with purpose toward my woman.
"Jackson," I said as I pulled even with them, ensuring my voice was as flat as thetires of his car.
They aren't flat yet, but they will be
I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.
Wonderful", the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.
Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?"
"I'm sure.
Simplify the complicated, untangle the tangled, follow the threads, to the heart of the matter.
Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?
Sometimes the best solution is simplification.
Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan.
making mountains out of molehills, thereby
I do not want to be folded
for where I am folded,
there I am a lie.
Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this.
The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.
I'll be contacting Webster tomorrow. My suggestion will be absofuckingmazing.
That which shrinks must first expand.
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
It's a continual process of opening and surrender, like taking off layer after layer of clothes,
Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?"
I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk.
"So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?
Tidying is a way of taking stock that shows us what we really like. The
A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book.
No matter how flat you make your pancakes, it still has two sides.
In order to make something, Ms. Lane, you must first unmake what is in the process. Should you begin with nothing, even nothing is unmade when it is replaced with something.
Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.
clearing and into the
Once upon a time, people thought earth was flat-shaped.
Now I'm ready to perceive universe won't be as we think.
Softening what is rigid in our hearts ...
You can't "un-recgonize" something
Decluttering creates chaos before the calm.
The present is like the flatness of Earth: an illusion. We
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.
Were the "pampas," perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.
A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.
For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.
I put the words down and push them a bit.
Please follow these instructions:
1. Stack the pages of this letter neatly.
2. Roll the pages up into a cylinder.
3. Smack yourself over the head with it.
4. Repeat. You complete ass.
Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.
Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.
Atomize and refigure the word.
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
He rolled the bloodied tape into a cylinder
an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.
Clothes dissolving, skin pressing together like the pages of a book, bound by a common spine.
Ah, but what is form but a bum wipe anyhow?
Dough is like an Indian mother's stress ball. Squeeze, roll.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin',
Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'.
Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well.
Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time - something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.
Big F took out a small box, unwrapped
Mapmaker mapmaker
make me a map
one to one scale,
without a single gap.
Map every rock,
every thought, every tree
and erase all the territory.
Fold within fold, the beloved
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning.
In order to get organized, sometimes one must first disassemble and scatter around various parts of themselves.
Why care about a flat planet populated by flat people? Who cares about a place where there is no Ky?
In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
The music folded over itself like batter being poured from a bowl, one note atop another ...
Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.