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• I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

  Wole Soyinka

  Morning, Writing, Machines

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• My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

  David Sedaris

  Years, Space, My Boyfriend

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• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Mind, World

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  R. L. Stine

  Special, Mitzvah, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Technology, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Morning, Fun, Ideas

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• I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Keys, Hands

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

  Charles Bukowski

  Computer

  Charles Bukowski (2002). “Il grande”, p.144, Feltrinelli Editore

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• Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Reality, Two

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• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  Red Smith

  Art, Writing, Blood

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• You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Trying, Pieces

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• I am not lazy.
  I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
  I am, each day,
  typing out the God
  my typewriter believes in.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Poetry, Soul

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Technology, Government

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• What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.

  Tom Robbins

  Buddhist, Real, Law

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Writing, Noon

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Office, Woe

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Loneliness, Writing, Crowds

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• That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

  Charles Kuralt

  Joy, Trying, Events

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• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Thinking, Machines

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.94, PublicAffairs

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• One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

  Pauli Murray

  Movement, Plus, Persons

  Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

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• I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

  Paul McCartney

  Aunt, House, Would Be

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• You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

  Man Ray

  Use, Asks

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