jigsaw puzzle
Noun
Meaning
a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces
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The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.
It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle.
So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.