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• The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

  Garth Nix

  Fear, Dark, Clouds

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• He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Hands, Envy, Mouths

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• I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.

  Michael Pitt

  Kids, Different, Remember

  Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

  Herman Melville

  Money, Travel, Cash

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.148, Northwestern University Press

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• A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Long

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• Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

  Tahir Shah

  Book, Blood, Long

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• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Parent, Sin

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Routledge

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• One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

  Alice Munro

  Hate, White, Hatred

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.362, Vintage

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• Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

  Owen Feltham

  Water, Fountain, Discontent

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• At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Life Is, Moments, Unnoticed

  Interview with Anisse Gross, www.sfgate.com. March 11, 2015.

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• The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

  Michael Polanyi

  Book, Ideas, Ink And Paper

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• For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.

  Tilden Edwards

  Jesus, Good Friend, Two

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• Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

  Andy Stanley

  Writing, Vision, Plans

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• What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

  Peter Shaffer

  Fall, Would Be, Phrases

  "Amadeus". Play by Peter Shaffer, November 2, 1979.

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• Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Sex, Real

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.89, Penguin

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

  David Hockney

  Problem, Printing, Paint

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

  Don Rittner

  Writing, Law, People

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Discipline, Personality, Miracle

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• He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Writing, Earnest

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.35, Catholic Way Publishing

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• When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

  Jack Gantos

  Names, Black, Pages

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• Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Memories, Romance

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• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Next, Evening

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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