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• Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

  Zelda Popkin

  Wall, Opportunity, Doors

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• The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Track, Poetry

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• I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Cutting, People, Inner Strength

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• I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

  Toby Jones

  Men, Fans, Calm

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

  Dennis Crowley

  Special, Maps, Dots

  "Dennis Crowley Of Foursquare On Social Search, Platforms And Rivals". Interview with Ingrid Lunden, techcrunch.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

  Goenawan Mohamad

  Thinking, Mind, Embarrassing

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• In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

  Bob Beauprez

  Stars, Victory, Voters

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• I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

  Winston Churchill

  Wall, Light, House

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  Self, People, Doubt

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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• my brain
  Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
  Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
  There hung a darkness, call it solitude
  Or blank desertion.

  William Wordsworth

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Darkness

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.638, Wordsworth Editions

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• The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Happiness, Theatre, World

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

  Dave Barry

  God, Years, Stupidity

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• I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

  Martin McDonagh

  Block, Thinking, Sitting Down

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• I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

  George Whitefield

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

  Steven Pressfield

  War, Artist, Squares

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.23, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Fashion, Wife, Criticize

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• If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

  Jon Krakauer

  Maps, Want, Spots

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• Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Broken, Passionate, Canvas

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• Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name.

  Taylor Swift

  Baby, Writing, Names

  "Song: "Blank Space" ("1989")". November 10, 2014.

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• I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

  Sophia Myles

  Grandmother, Half, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

  Kim Stanley

  Inappropriate, Given, Slate

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• I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

  Victor Serge

  Might, Argument, Logical

  Victor Serge (2011). “The Case of Comrade Tulayev”, p.19, New York Review of Books

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• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Pages, Canvas

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