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• I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

  Selima Hill

  Real, Insecurity, Paper

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• His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature."
  "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

  Donald Barthelme

  Heart, Fur, Literature

  "Florence Green is 81". "Come Back, Dr. Caligari". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1964.

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• I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Eye, Faces, Cry

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• The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, School, Mean

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Writing, Successful, Pages

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Stars, Spring

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• When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Martin Gore on new Depeche Mode CD, Frank Ocean". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, newsok.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

  Kenny Florian

  Mma, Canvas, Excited

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• Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

  Criss Jami

  Mean, Imagination, Doe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, I Realized, Chests

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• I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

  Roger Zelazny

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sight, Two, Mind

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

  Milton Resnick

  Fall, Men, Canvas

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• Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Eye, Firsts, Buttons

  "Ask the Parrot (Parker, Book 23)". Book by Donald E. Westlake (under the pseudonym Richard Stark), 2006.

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• Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

  Tim Lebbon

  Shade, Life Is

  Tim Lebbon (2008). “Fallen”, p.120, Spectra

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• ...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

  Kristin Cashore

  Space, Disappear, Dangerous

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.112, Penguin

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• It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Suicide, Cat, Dark

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.

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• They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

  Malcolm X

  Teacher, Lying, Justice

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

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• Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

  Bruce Lee

  Morning, Writing, Blank Mind

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• It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

  David Luiz

  Fear, Artist, Strange

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• In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

  Guido Molinari

  Expression, Color, Trying

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• You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.

  Morgan Freeman

  Clever, Simple, Play

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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• I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Indifference, Mets

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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