This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995), Safe Sex
“When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.”
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
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“What are we allowed to do when we’re looking for things we’re required to do?”
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“When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Things fall apart, it's scientific.”
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Variant: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
“No concrete test of what is really true has ever been agreed upon.”
                                        
                                        Source: "The Will to Believe"  p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=Moqh7ktHaJEC&pg=PA15 
Source: 1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
                                    
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility