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• I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Printed Word, Magic

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, October 6, 2016.

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• It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Book, Writing, Printed Word

  Eric Hobsbawm (2011). “How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

  Cesare Pavese

  Echoes, Ideas, Pages

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.146, Routledge

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• Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

  Margaret Haddix

  Printed Word, Valuable

  "Among the Brave".

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• Come on, Ella. Sleep green.' Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp. A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sleep, Silence, Bed

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.256, Macmillan

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• The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Paper, Tempo

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• The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."

  John Leo

  Funny Christmas, Government, Dumb

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• In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

  John Burroughs

  Real, Eye, Science

  John Burroughs (1924). “Under the apple trees”

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• I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

  Larry Page

  Teacher, Confused, School

  "Persons of the Week: Larry Page and Sergey Brin" by Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.

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• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Needs, Paper

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• I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?

  Joe Bastianich

  Ambition, Thinking, People

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• In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Black, Ink

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• Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

  Clifford Odets

  Life, Dollar Bills, Dollars

  1935 Jacob. Awake and Sing, act1.

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• That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press in ending a correspondence, it be an instruction to the officers to give notice "That no further contributions to the mysteries of Polarity will be received, considered or printed by the Society." His challenge was not accepted.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Science, Practice, Games

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• A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Illustration, Lasts, Vacuums

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Wise, Thinking, Technique

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• Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon
  Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom
  Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page
  And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age

  Jackson Browne

  Age, Midnight, Noon

  Song: Looking East, Album: Looking East, 1996

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• Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed.

  Frederic Chopin

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Home, Government, Suggestions

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• The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Glowing, Issues, Sound

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

  Tobey Maguire

  Gone, Levels, Pages

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• History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.

  Stephen Spender

  Angel, Gun, Years

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.136, Faber & Faber

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• It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

  Tom Wicker

  May, Information, Never Quit

  "IN THE NATION; Lesson of Lattimore" by Tom Wicker, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 1989.

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• Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?

  Thomas Traherne

  Dark, Blessing, Light

  Thomas Traherne, Jan Ross (2005). “The Works of Thomas Traherne: Inducements to retirednes ; A sober view of Dr Twisses, his considerations ; Seeds of eternity, or, The nature of the soul ; The kingdom of God”, p.14, DS Brewer

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• There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’

  Barney Frank

  War, Party, Years

  "Barney Frank tackles gay marriage, defense spending in Portland speech" by Seth Koenig, bangordailynews.com. June 10, 2012.

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