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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, White, Mars

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• Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

  Kathryn Stockett

  Paper, Vicious

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.374, Penguin

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• Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Blood, Tears, Fiction

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• A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

  J.R. Ward

  Book, Brotherhood, Pages

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.333, Penguin

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• When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

  Molly Crabapple

  Artist, Blood, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

  Alexandra Cousteau

  Writing, Water

  "Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.

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• The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching.

  Paul Laseau

  Eye, Hands, Trying

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• Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Dying, Guarantees, Useless

  "Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Technology, Promise

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Paper, Woods

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• He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

  John Ray

  Writing, Use, Using Words

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• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Ambition, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

  Serge Lutens

  Writing, Choices Made, Gestures

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• Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Long Ago, Found

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• Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

  Lu Xun

  Lying, Blood, Facts

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• Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.

  Alice Munro

  Mother, White, Hatred

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

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• You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.

  Ralph Steadman

  Feelings, Capture, Wells

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• The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Powerful, Lying

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• A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time.

  Leonhard Rauwolf

  Morning, Coffee, Black

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• I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Writing, Typewriters

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• Language has not the power to
  speak what love indites:
  The soul lies buried
  in the ink that writes.

  John Clare

  Lying, Writing, Soul

  John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”

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• Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Girl, Fall, Believe

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.94, Vintage

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• Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Heart, Men

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