Pens Quotes - Page 14

• Put down the pen someone else gave you.
  No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Taken, Voice, Broken

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• WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

  Mark Twain

  Feelings, Ink, Hot

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Writing, Long, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 02, 2014

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• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Gains, France, Madrid

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• Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Sorry, Writing, Feel Better

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.217, Shambhala Publications

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• Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

  Voltaire

  Mistake, Errors, Age

  Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.298

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• Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

  Judith Wright

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Judith Wright (1971). “Collected poems, 1942-1970”, Angus & Robertson

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• Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sadness, Joy

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• Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Hands, Feet

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

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• God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Hands, Tongue

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.1111, Bible Study Steps

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• I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

  Kara Walker

  Knives, People, Southern

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• Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

  Stephen Charnock

  Jesus, Taken, Lips

  Stephen Charnock (2000). “Christ Our Passover”, p.280, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

  Jay-Z

  Running, Men, Dodge

  Song: Brooklyn Go Hard

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• I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

  Spalding Gray

  Painter, Extensions, Breaths

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• Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

  William Allen White

  Writing, Dip, Arteries

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• What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Strong, Ideas, Heavy

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

  Adrian Rogers

  Memories, Hands, Ink

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• If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.

  Kaye Dacus

  Writing, Desire, Paper

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• Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

  Robert Crumb

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Trying

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• Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

  Allison Mackie

  Writing, Heart, Blood

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• For poetry, he's past his prime,
  He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
  His fire is out, his wit decayed,
  His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.
  I'd have him throw away his pen,
  But there's no talking to some men.

  Jonathan Swift

  Past, Men, Fire

  Matthew Prior, Jonathan Swift (1853). “Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].”, p.155

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