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• I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.

  Sue Kaufman

  Country, Reading, Would Be

  SUE KAUFMAN (1967). “DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE”

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• Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Wife, Telephones

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• I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.

  Cathleen Schine

  Book, Night, Naps

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• So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Artist, Blood

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• Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Wall, Used

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1959). “Miss Pinkerton”

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• There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Focus, Sensual, Letters

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage

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• But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Powerful, Distance, Home

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin

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• I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

  Susan Griffin

  Mother, Dream, Hands

  Susan Griffin (2016). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.164, Counterpoint

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• With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

  Alison Lurie

  World, Pencils

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?

  Amy Sedaris

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• Imperialism is a paper tiger.

  Mao Zedong

  Imperialism, Tigers

  Zedong Mao, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.

  Helen Eustis

  Reality, Men, Heaven

  Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.245, Library of America

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

  Dara Horn

  Running, Bridges, Iron

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!

  Josephine Tey

  Writing, Odds, Ideas

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• Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

  Javad Alizadeh

  My Best Friend, Worst, Sellers

  Humor & Caricature magazine, April 1995.

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• And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Book, Thinking, Light

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• But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.

  Karen Hawkins

  Nice, Silly, Writing

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

  Angelina Jolie

  Morning, Lying, Thinking

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Character, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

  Florence Nightingale

  War, Satisfaction, Convince

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.464, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Meals, Breakfast, Newspapers

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Ideas, Mind, Pages

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• The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

  Jilly Cooper

  Running, Work, Reading

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• it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.

  Brenda Ueland

  Beautiful, Tears, Dull

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