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• The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

  Antonin Artaud

  Light, Noise, Ruins

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.12, Grove Press

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• When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Goes On, Spirit, Problem

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• While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

  Regina Brett

  Elderly, Champion, Causes

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• So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Important, News

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mean, Political, Social

  New York Times, October 22, 1964.

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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  Randy Wayne White

  Anchors, Three, Four

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

  Albert Einstein

  Reading, Writing, Looks

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.428, Princeton University Press

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• The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Blessed, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.69, Revell

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• The written word is everything.

  John Drinkwater

  Written

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

  Gustav Klimt

  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

  Nadine Gordimer

  Human Nature, Worst, Humans

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• I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

  Edward Bunker

  Believe, Ignorance, Dumb

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.323, Oldcastle Books

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• There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Weapons, Source, Greater

  "'I'm a Brummie now', says Malala, the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, as she opens huge new library in her adopted home city" by Alex Ward, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 3, 2013.

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• Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mind, Different, Way

  "Neil Gaiman Brings A Multimedia Extravaganza To Carnegie Hall". kunr.org. June 25, 2014.

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• I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Letters, Notes, Written

  "Sandra Bullock Talks The Lake House". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. June 13, 2006.

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• It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
  [Lat., Delere licebit
  Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

  Horace

  Spoken Word, Recalls, Publish

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• Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Psychics, Moral

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

  Douglas Adams

  Media, Hitchhiking, Want

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

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• The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Sound

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• I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

  J. D. Salinger

  Ears, Unwritten

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• Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

  Bianca Jagger

  Photography, Leaving, Doe

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• If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

  George Whitefield

  Lying, Practice, Danger

  George Whitefield (1772). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters”, p.27

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