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• I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.

  Julianna Baggott

  Senior, Sibling, Writing

  "The Rumpus Interview With Julianna Baggott". Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Hands, History, Clerks

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

  Robert Stone

  Typewriters, Navy, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person.

  Matt Smith

  Unique, People, Style

  Source: www.ink-d.co.uk

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• Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Erratic, Letters

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Writing, School

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Politeness of Princes: And Other School Stories: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.117, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.

  Dore Ashton

  Artist, Simple, Garden

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• Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Song, Lakes, Land

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.291, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Son, Men

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• ...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriting whatsoever against us. It's simply cheating to say you believe that and then renege on it by postulating some list of extra-rotten crimes for which Christ has to send you to hell. He, the universal Redeemer, is the only judge; as far as he's concerned, the only mandatory sentence is to life and life abundant.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Cheating, Believe, Judging

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  If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.

  Redd Foxx

  Wall, Toilets, Ifs

  "'Live' Las Vegas". 8-track album by Redd Foxx, 1968.

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• Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mother, Two, Wire

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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Notebook, Hate

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• And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Notebook, Dad, Father

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• It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.

  Judith Martin

  Mother, Writing, Letters

  Jacobina Martin, Judith Martin (2010). “Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Determination, Hands

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• I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

  Linwood Barclay

  Notebook, School, Stories

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Typewriters

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• The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Way, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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