Paper Quotes - Page 5

• Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

  George Mackay Brown

  Men, Wind, Stories

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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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• Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Office, Volume

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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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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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

  Sue Grafton

  Pieces, Liquid, God Bless

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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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• Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

  Ilka Chase

  Photography, People, Thank God

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

  Sylvia Porter

  Motivation, Support, Coins

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

  Mr. T

  Stars, Signatures, Pieces

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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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• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mean, Perfect, Miserable

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• Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Mean, Needs, Married

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My real first job was delivering newspapers with I was 15. I would ride my bike around and chuck papers at people's houses. The thing that sucked is when I would go collecting everyone acted like they were not home. Totally sucked but because I could control the weather I showered trashcan size hail down on their homes until they were completely decimated.

  Dane Cook

  Jobs, Real, Home

  Source: mcclainjohnson.com

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• Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Writing, Hands, Lines

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

  Bruno Schulz

  Character, Reality, Cracks

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

  Vance Havner

  Men, Fire, Two

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• Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Memories, Divine Justice, Information

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Against Cowardliness". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 351,

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• Two, let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let's all have a beautiful year, let's get this money.

  Rick Ross

  Beautiful, Years, Two

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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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• Age is a number on a piece of paper.

  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Numbers, Age, Pieces

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