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• I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening." He considered me,annoyed and at a loss for what to do next."I don't kill humans." "Me niether!See,common ground already.

  Kiersten White

  Loss, Annoyed, Next

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• Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Artist, Simple

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• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

  Alison Jackson

  Queens, Too Much, Fabulous

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• Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Men, Talent, Rhyme

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Swings, Mind

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• It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Cds, Weapons

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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• Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Hurt, War

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• Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment.

  Andre Iguodala

  Thinking, Nba Championships, Mind

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• The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

  Bob Weir

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.

  Claire Messud

  Wall, Book, Self

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 23, 2012

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• I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

  Gregory Galloway

  Loss, Waiting, No Friends

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• Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d be____________________.

  Rick Riordan

  Memories, Monsters, Lost

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• I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

  Susan Hill

  Night, Paper, Desks

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Travel, Imagination

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

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• It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Effort, Doe

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 24, 2011

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• He's looking at me as if the whole world waits for my next breath, with an intensity that makes my heart pound and my palms sweat and then he smiles, a sweet curve of his mouth, and my breath catches, but then I freeze because there is something about it, something beyond it that I know, that makes my mind go blank with fear and pain.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.42, Penguin

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• All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Greatness, Games

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• A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Space, Light, Shining

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 19, 2015

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• What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

  Misty Copeland

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Space, White, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 20, 2015

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• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Thinking, Aggravation

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• My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Morning, Wall

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin

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• There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

  Lauren Willig

  Reality, Men, Perfect

  Lauren Willig (2007). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.112, Penguin

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• Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there’s space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.

  Tammara Webber

  Wall, Heart, First Love

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.8, Tammara Webber

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• We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

  Nora Roberts

  Done, Slate, Survived

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.853, Penguin

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