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• The written word is the link between the past and the future.

  Lincoln Barnett

  Past, Links, Written

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• Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Prayer, Thinking

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• The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

  Hugh Mackay

  Magic, Lovely, Inevitable

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• All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Ends, Exception

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.6, eKitap Projesi

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• I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

  Alicia Keys

  Flow, Knows, Written

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• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Book, Opinion, Written

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• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Book, Technology, Humanity

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• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

  Theodore Bikel

  Advent, Given, Mass

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Art, Poet, Substitutes

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• They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

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• How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Eye, Sound, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Stress, Believe, Writing

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• Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

  Italo Calvino

  Police, Irony, States

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Blood, Smell

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• The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

  Cornelia Funke

  Insects, Spoken Word, Eternal

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

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• My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweet, Father, Passion

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• The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

  James Lafferty

  Stories, Half, Half The Story

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• A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

  Grover Cleveland

  Men, Honor, Citizens

  "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897". Book by James D. Richardson, 1896-1899.

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• However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Clouds, Fleeting

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

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• Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

  Orville Prescott

  Children, Book, World

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• But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

  Terri Windling

  Stronger, Film, Written

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• But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

  Betsy Lerner

  Believe, Writing, Blue

  Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.19, Penguin

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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