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• Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

  H. G. Wells

  Blow, Ideas, People

  H. G. Wells (2005). “The Soul of a Bishop”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Drawing, Pieces, World

  Eduardo Souto de Moura (2005). “Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas”

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• The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

  William Safire

  Successful, Causes, Fit

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• This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Blood, Ink

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.205, Open Road Media

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• Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

  Walt Kelly

  Believe, Waiting, Television

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• People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

  Emily Post

  Past, Land, Names

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Believe, Two, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Games, Watches, News

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.42, Melville House

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• A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Two, People

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• You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.

  William Zinsser

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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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, Necks, Tools

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

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• I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

  Eli Manning

  House, Want, Persons

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• I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

  Kerry Wood

  Tvs, Papers, Ifs

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• My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

  Corey Dillon

  Judgment, Hours, Streets

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• If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

  Derrek Lee

  Writing, Player, League

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• Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

  Maria Sharapova

  Would Be, Finals, Pages

  Press conference, www.wimbledon.com. July 9, 2015.

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• With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

  Ada Lovelace

  Country, Ink And Paper, Government

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• The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.

  Emo Philips

  Differences, Irs, Return

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• You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Party, Writing, Order

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• My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Doors

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Order

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• Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Would Be, Lasts

  "Interesting Times (Discworld, Book 17)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 186), 1994.

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• It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.

  Richard Betts

  Dog, Mean, Player

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