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• Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cures, Humans

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• Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

  Augustus William Hare

  Writing, Mind, Paper

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

  Elvis Costello

  Heart, Thinking, Advice

  Song: All The Rage, Album: Brutal Youth, 1994

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• A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

  John Ray

  Memories, Science, Use

  John Ray (1744). “The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation”, p.278

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• And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

  Vikram Seth

  Green, Red, Equations

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.171, Penguin Books India

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• [Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

  Anthony Atala

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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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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• I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist, Ideas, Cartoon

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hurt, Crazy, Believe

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• The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

  Dorothy Parker

  Education, School, Spit

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• One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Writing, Years

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

  Edward Abbey

  Rose, Use, Veins

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

  Julius Evola

  Prayer, Hero, Blood

  Julius Evola (2011). “Metaphysics of War”, p.43, Arktos

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• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fun, Inspiration, School

  Interview with Simone Swink, www.januarymagazine.com. June, 2005.

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• God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Writing, Years, Rivers

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• In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Grace, Rare Moments

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• I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change.

  Colson Whitehead

  Jobs, Thinking, Typewriters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself

  Lewis Mumford

  Color, Goal, Personality

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• Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Hands, Lines, Austerity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

  Arthur Eddington

  Drama, Shadow, Watches

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Introduction), 1928.

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• My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.

  Charlie Benante

  Tattoo, Running, Two

  Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

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• Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'

  Jack Canfield

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Night, New Orleans, Air

  "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.

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