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• V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

  J.R. Ward

  Rooms, Used, Passing

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.253, Penguin

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• Once we erase ourselves, then there's no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We've awakened from the dream and the dream has faded.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Erase

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• He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.

  Henri Michaux

  Razors, Erase, Know How

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• Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.

  Brad Goreski

  Air, Vintage, Shoes

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• The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

  Dorothy Parker

  Education, School, Ink

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• Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

  Adam Gopnik

  Education, Art, Degrees

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

  Dylan Moran

  Mind, Looks, Paper

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• You can't live life without an eraser.

  Tom Peters

  Live Life

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• Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
  They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
  Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
  Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Dancer, Ballet

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boards, Bars, Tools

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• At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Running, Past, Choices

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Hey, Excuse

  "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

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• My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

  Floyd Cooper

  Use, Shapes, Painting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Kids, Son, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Writing, Years

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

  Linda Gray

  Hands, People, Life Is

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• The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

  Hyman Rickover

  Mistake, Paper, Necks

  "AEC Authorizing Legislation: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy", (p. 1702), 1970.

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• In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Artist, Hands

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• The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.

  Lucio Russo

  Children, Attitude, Past

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

  James Patterson

  Cheer, Crazy, Tears

  James Patterson (2005). “The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Kicks, Handy

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Yeah,” said Iggy. “But what now? Let’s do something fun.” I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn’t enough fun for him. Kids today are so spoiled.

  James Patterson

  Running, Fun, Kids

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• What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Teaching, Thug, Six

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• We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!). -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Nice, Night, Clothes

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