Pens Quotes - Page 28

• With this pen I take in hand my selves
  and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
  Though rain curses the window
  let the poem be made.

  Anne Sexton

  Rain, Self, Hands

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• A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Numbers, Doe

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

  Karl Kraus

  Beautiful, Freedom, People

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wags, Tongue, Mortals

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.17

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• When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

  Karl Kraus

  Fate, Remember, Happens

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

  Fannie Hurst

  Perseverance, Struggle, Book

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• I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Coffee, Snacks

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• The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.

  William Wells Brown

  Fall, America, Long

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• I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who also happens to be the minister of sport. When she handed me the award, I said, Thank you, it's wonderful to be recognized, but we journalists always want more. So madam minister, I have a personal favor to ask you: Do not go to Sochi. And she announced that she was going to Sochi, but she's not attending the ceremonies, for political reasons. It's a very pointed stance.

  Masha Gessen

  Sports, Political, Liberty

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• Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."

  Will Kimbrough

  Dream, Character, Greek

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

  Ba Jin

  Hate, Ashes, World

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• I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Ink, Paper

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• I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: time.com

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• My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Tongue, Loses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.889, Delphi Classics

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• On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.

  A. Curtiss

  Book, Heart, Knowing

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• In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Mistake, Simple

  Bart D. Ehrman (2008). “Whose Word is It?: The Story Behind who Changed the New Testament and why”, p.55, A&C Black

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• I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

  George Washington

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  François Jean marquis de Chastellux, George Washington (1828). “Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82”, p.396

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• Don't go back over your life with a red pen.

  Gary Gulman

  Over You, Red

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• The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

  Frank Yerby

  Simple, Men, Years

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• Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.

  Roland Barthes

  Writing, Trying, Gestures

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Cinema

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• My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

  Eva Green

  Father, Classic, Chic

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• If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

  Stevie Wonder

  Moving, Differences, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

  Rob Urbinati

  Opportunity, Paper, Figures

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Imagination, Needs, Machines

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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