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For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

Eric Russell

Mistake, Book, Errors

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Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

George Crabbe

Lying, Slumber, Immortality

George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38

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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

Sports, Roots, Giving

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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

Harold Pinter

Years, Doe, Doing Me

Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

Robert Fitzgerald

Character, Ears, Tongue

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Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.

Dave Barry

Ocean, Light, Doe

Dave Barry (1996). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Crown Pub

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Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

Beatrice Warde

People, Design, Personality

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Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Kanye West

Wall, Flower, Writing

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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

History, Three, Slavery

William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

Karl Marlantes

War, Writing, Feet

"A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

Joe Shuster

Jobs, Pride, Artist

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I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

Peter Matthiessen

Character, Land, Smell

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I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

Robert Cormier

Book, Lost, Thousand

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Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue

Andy Biersack

Lying, Eye, Blue

Twitter post from May 27, 2010

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It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Philip Emeagwali

Mathematical Equations, Technique, Algorithms

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The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

Rachel Gibson

Book, Hard Work, Writing

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Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

Daniel Alarcon

Beautiful, Book, Brilliant

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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

Tom Rachman

Fighting, Swimming, Journalism

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If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

Ben Goldacre

Real, Book, Writing

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Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Philip Greenspun

Collaboration, Saved

"Interactive Web sites to thrive" by Nancy Weil, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2000.

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Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes.

Andromeda Romano-Lax

Children, Couple, Book

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This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

Joseph Auslander

Philosophy, Book, Blind Spots

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It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

M. William Phelps

Integrity, School, America

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Memory revises me.
Even now a letter
comes from a place
I don’t know, from someone
with my name
and postmarked years ago,
while I await
injunctions from the light
or the dark;
I wait for shapeliness
limned, or dissolution.
Is paradise due or narrowly missed
until another thousand years?
I wait
in a blue hour
and faraway noise of hammering,
and on a page a poem begun, something
about to be dispersed,
something about to come into being.

Li-Young Lee

Memories, Dark, Light

Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

Rick Yancey

Running, War, Humanity

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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