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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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• Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Coffee, Cuffs, Pages

  Mary Jo Salter (2013). “Open Shutters”, p.68, Knopf

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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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• Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

  George Ayittey

  Looks, Records, Dry

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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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• 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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• 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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• One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

  Alice Munro

  Hate, White, Hatred

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

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Writing, Earnest

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.35, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

  Mark Twain

  Machines, May, Pages

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• The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

  Michael Polanyi

  Book, Ideas, Ink And Paper

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• For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.

  Tilden Edwards

  Jesus, Good Friend, Two

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• Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Sex, Real

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.89, Penguin

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• Burn worldly love,
  rub the ashes and make ink of it,
  make the heart the pen,
  the intellect the writer,
  write that which has no end or limit.

  Guru Nanak

  Writing, Heart, Ashes

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• Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Paper, Commodity

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• The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Dna, Doe, Information

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• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Moving, Fall

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• Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Writing, White, Pages

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