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• What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Blood, People

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• I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.

  Drake

  Relationship, Tattoo, Girl

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• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  Maira Kalman

  Etching, World, Brushes

  "Maira Kalman's show at Jewish Museum". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2010.

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• Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Writing, Poet

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.173

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• Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mean, Men, Race

  Jacques Barzun (1965). “Race: a study in superstition”

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• Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Blood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.257, Harvard University Press

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• Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Weed, Book, Teaching

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• It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Artist, Drawing, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Matter, Enough

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

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• Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

  Karl Kraus

  Age, Veins, Flow

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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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. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.

  Tahir Shah

  Book, Impact, Blood

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• Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Emotion, Should, Brushes

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• When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

  Plutarch

  Envy, Matter, Given

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• I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.

  Pierre Soulages

  Kids, Color, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Blood, World

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.205, Open Road Media

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• I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Mistake, Book, Reality

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Canvas, Boast

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• With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

  Ada Lovelace

  Country, Ink And Paper, Government

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• There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Escaping, Fit

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.44, Wildside Press LLC

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• Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown
  Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
  As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Writing, Numbers

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Science, Light, Population

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• Read two newspapers a day. And not just online. Hold them in your hands. Get ink on your fingers.

  John Callaway

  Hands, Two, Online

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• I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

  Mitch Daniels

  Debt, Red, Arithmetic

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• I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

  Julien Green

  Ink And Paper, Littles, Equilibrium

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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