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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: Carpentry Contentment Does Doing Gives Lot Me Nothing Piece Sometimes Spend Time Wood

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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

~Adrian Edmondson

Topics: Because Carpentry Fail Ready Take Time Up Waiting

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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

Topics: Anywhere Border Carpentry Chances Course Cross Dishes Factories Gardens Go Homes Mexican Millions Much Pretty Restaurant Restaurants Shops States United United States Us Washed Will Work You

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My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

~Coy Bowles

Topics: About Anything Artistic Carpenter Carpentry Father Hands He His Just Skilled Very

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I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

~David Lynch

Topics: Carpentry Delivering Doing Jobs Journal Love Myself Odd Plumbing Street Supported Wall Wall Street I Love

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I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Agony Books Carpentry Essential Guess Happiness Least Life Like Much None One Of The Things Pleasure Producing So Much Time Something Sort Spend Things Think Time Why Working Writing I Think

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Both Carpentry Hard Just Literature Material Nothing Reality Ultimately Wood Working You

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