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• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Men, Age, Democracy

  Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Magic, Ink, Bottles

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• The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Hands, Paper

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

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• I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

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• I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

  Jeremy Fisher

  Writing, Guitar, Joy

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• I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Virginia, America, Independence

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• The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Ignorant, Cameras, Use

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• So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

  John Fante

  Story Writers, Thieves, Genius

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• "I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly. "Now, then. What is your brother's name?"

  Richelle Mead

  Teacher, Brother, Coffee

  "Bloodlines". Book by Richelle Mead, August 23, 2011.

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• This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mad, Done, Paper

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• She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

  Kate Morton

  People, Waiting, Stories

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

  Daniel Handler

  Receiving, News, Letters

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Thinking, Work Out

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• When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

  Thom Yorke

  People, Ask Me, Autographs

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• Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

  Booth Tarkington

  Men, Sheep, Shepherds

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• I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

  Kingsley Amis

  Animal, Looks, Behaviour

  Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader (2000). “The letters of Kingsley Amis”, HarperCollins

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• The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Book, Thinking

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• I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

  David Brock

  Democracy, Journalism, Organized

  David Brock (2004). “The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy”, p.20, Crown

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• Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Past, Life Is Like

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• Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

  Dorothy Parker

  Grief, Heart, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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• Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tools, Done, Fear Of Failure

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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