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• I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.

  John Hodgman

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Editors, Liberty, Libertarian

  "he Fine Art of Political Wit". Book by Leon Harris, 1964.

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• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  John Sexton

  Photography, School, College

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• I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

  Sam Harris

  War, People, May

  "In Defense of Torture" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

  Peter Marshall

  Christian, Jesus, Wall

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• The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

  Christopher Morley

  Media, Mind, Evening

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

  William Boyd

  Book, Successful, Novel

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• Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

  Francis Thompson

  Summer, Wine, Fire

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

  Charles A. Dana

  Paper, Morality, Lord

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Book, Trends

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

  Jack London

  Writing, Unhappy, Connections

  Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1999). “No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing”, p.57, Stanford University Press

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• A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.

  William Eggleston

  Black And White, People, Supportive

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.

  William Eggleston

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

  Erik Naggum

  Ideas, Purpose, Paper

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• And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Writing, Adventure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Graphic Arts Books

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• Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

  Carl Sandburg

  Rocks, Wings, Fossils

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dust, Blood

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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• I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Acceptance, People

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• The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home....They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things.

  Oliver DeMille

  Children, Home, Law

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• However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Reading, Done, Helping

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.60, ABC-CLIO

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• A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Speech, Dictator, Free Press

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• One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Men, Faults

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• Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Book, Years

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.115, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

  Germaine Greer

  Integrity, Survival, Principles

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.15, Atlantic Monthly Press

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