Paper Quotes
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I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
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I think some students will be pleased with this because they're against all the paper we waste at college. The financial aspect is very attractive.
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When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.
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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
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If I get it all down on paper, it’s no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.
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If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.
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Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.
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An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.
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Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
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The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin
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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
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Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
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You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
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“Street traders were doing good business selling a paper toy which represented a pig, but if you put the paper together and unfolded it in a certain way it turned into Hitler’s face.”
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The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.
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I’m very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago – now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
