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• Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Hands, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Scientist, Staring

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

  Christopher Paolini

  Blow, Mind, Would Be

  Christopher Paolini (2009). “Eldest: Book Two”, p.347, Random House

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• you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Pages, Blank Pages

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Book, Philosophical

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.251, Modern Library

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• Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Past, Chloe

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• What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

  Janet Fitch

  Beauty, Girl, Dream

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Expression, Flames

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• ... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

  Monique Wittig

  Fire, Teeth, Pages

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• We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Important, Principles

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• You can fix anything but a blank page.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Pages, Blank Pages

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• The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mold, Lines

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.146, Penguin

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• There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

  Charles Dickens

  Way In Life, Expectations, Romance

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.411, Penguin

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• What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Maps, Wilderness, Spots

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times he watched it.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Love, Differences, Bored

  Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.72, Faraaz Kazi

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• Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, People, New Day

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• If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

  Glen Keane

  Hard Times, Drawing, Enough

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• Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

  Richard Wilbur

  Mind, Crafts, Steps

  Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Jazz, Canvas

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• Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc.

  Drake

  Humble, Cocky, Buzz

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• Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Character, Reality

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Success, Yoga, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty (2011). “The Essential Tagore”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Falling In Love, Negative

  "Stages on Life's Way" by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong, (p. 111), April 30, 1845.

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• Alas! is even love too weak
  To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
  Are even lovers powerless to reveal
  To one another what indeed they feel?
  I knew the mass of men conceal'd
  Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
  They would by other men be met
  With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
  I knew they lived and moved
  Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
  Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet
  The same heart beats in every human breast!

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Heart, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

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• But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Lying, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Years - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.282, Read Books Ltd

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