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• In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Writing, Play

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• She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Kind, Strikes

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• Just snow and sapphire and ink.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Snow, Sapphires

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• He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, Hands, Friendly

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• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  Mitch Daniels

  Reality, Debt, Red

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Past, Intellectual, Energy

  "He's all the rage". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Wise, Red

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.85, Broadview Press

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• He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

  William Shakespeare

  Animal, Drunk, Paper

  William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (2011). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Song, Writing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

  Michael Palin

  Atheist, Morning, Believe

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• I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

  Robert W. Service

  Sea, Doubt, Forgiving

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• They done Wrong Like ink from a busted pen Thrown away 'cause of someone else Used up But he come back Dressed in night Fine as a king With his queen The wrong Made right So right.

  P. C. Cast

  Kings, Queens, Night

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dog, Men, Hair

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat

  J. D. Salinger

  Brother, Pockets, Bats

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hair, Wind, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

  Allison Pearson

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Moving, Fall

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• My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Gitanjali”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Oh my God..." Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink...in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted...in a billboard-size front with flourishes... Her name in the Old Language.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Mirrors, Names

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.412, Penguin

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• It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

  James A. Owen

  Boys, Blood, World

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Ooh, J, he's got ink too." "Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter.

  Tammara Webber

  Thinking, Hotter

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• She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.

  Janet Fitch

  Notebook, Writing, Night

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

  Richard Hugo

  Writing, Giving, Impression

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• I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

  Camille Desmoulins

  Littles, France, Revolution

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