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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

  Katherine Applegate

  Book, Long, Homework

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

  Robert Breault

  Optimistic, Average, Long

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• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

  Robert Wyatt

  Numbers, Needs, Pieces

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• I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.

  Ferran Adria

  Notebook, Jobs, Creativity

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• Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

  Dan Simmons

  Art, Moving, Artist

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.463, Spectra

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• Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

  Michael Chabon

  Procrastination, Offering, Dull

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

  Lily King

  Hands, Brain, Keyboards

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

  David Rees

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Revision, Erasers

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Color, Needs

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• You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

  Paul Strisik

  Writing, Typewriters, Important

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Home, Heart

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• You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Paris, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Writing, Thinking, Focus And Concentration

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• The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Moving, Submissive, Offers

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Paper

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• I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Morning, Thinking, Sitting Down

  "Writers' rooms: Andrew O'Hagan" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2007.

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• You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

  Edwidge Danticat

  School, Sacrifice, Tree

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• The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Notebook, Beach, Garden

  Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)

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• I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

  Judy Blume

  Block, Believe, Good Day

  "Judy Blume’s Online Chat for the New York Public Library". www.judyblume.com. November 19, 2002.

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• After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.

  Douglas Adams

  Real, Paper, Tables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

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• I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

  Henry Moore

  Eye, Ideas, Drawing

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• I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Moving, Drawing, Let It Go

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• There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

  Rod Stewart

  Writing, Persons, Stills

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