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• The pen has shaken nations.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Nations

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• Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Kings, Sorry

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• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  Maimonides

  Liars, Lying, Book

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• For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

  Sir John Davies

  Wings, Long, Shining

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• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

  Max Beerbohm

  Giving, Needs, Brilliant

  The Yellow Book, Jan. 1895

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• Comedians are really writers who don't
  have pens and pencils about them, but
  they riff.

  Carl Reiner

  Comedian, Pencils

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. October 2004.

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• To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Novelists, Needs, Pieces

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  Samuel Lover

  Men, Hygiene, Way

  'Handy Andy' (1842) ch. 36

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• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

  Alan Perlis

  Nests, Ballpoint Pens, Parentheses

  "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Textbook by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, 2nd edition, 1996.

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• Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

  Alan King

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Typewriters, Office

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• Their silent wounds have speech
  More eloquent than men;
  Their tones can deeper reach
  Than human voice or pen.

  William Robert Woodman

  Thank You, Uplifting, Memorial Day

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Mark Bittman

  Swimming, Filth, Salmon

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• The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Poetry, May, Historian

  Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.30

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• The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Stories, Body

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Death, Men, Hands

  "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel K̀eeler Hoyt, p. 763, 1896.

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• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, People, Checks

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• The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Discovery, Agendas

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• Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

  Bayard Taylor

  Cannons

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• Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Mind, Identity, Roles

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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

  Saadi

  Forgiveness, Prayer, Forgiving

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• There is more done with pens than with swords.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Done

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• The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sweet, Light, Feelings

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.431

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• The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

  Pope Pius IX

  Sculptors, Chisels

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