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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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• The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Character, Thinking, Way

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• The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

  Garth Nix

  Fear, Dark, Clouds

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• When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

  Jack Gantos

  Names, Black, Pages

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• The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Lying, Difficult And Easy, Ceramics

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Parent, Sin

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Routledge

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Book, Blood, Long

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• A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Long

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• Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

  Herman Melville

  Money, Travel, Cash

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.148, Northwestern University Press

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• I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.

  Michael Pitt

  Kids, Different, Remember

  Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Hands, Envy, Mouths

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• Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Ink And Paper, Long

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

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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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• 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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• Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Fun, Lying

  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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• Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

  Don Rittner

  Writing, Law, People

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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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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• Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Next, Evening

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• Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

  Michael Cunningham

  Ink And Paper, Paper, Simulate

  "Michael Cunningham on Reading the 'Invisible Classics'" by Michael Cunningham, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

  Andy Stanley

  Writing, Vision, Plans

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• At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Life Is, Moments, Unnoticed

  Interview with Anisse Gross, www.sfgate.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

  Owen Feltham

  Water, Fountain, Discontent

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• A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

  Tracy Martin

  Stories, Pens, Telling Your Story

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