White Paper Quotes

• The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

  Julius Charles Hare

  White, Black, Mind

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214

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• Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

  Charles A. Dana

  Media, Two, White

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

  Paul Gallico

  Veins, Littles, Pages

  Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf

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• It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.
  
  It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

  Duane Michals

  Reading, White, Waiting

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• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

  Gunter Grass

  Crush, Art, Passion

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• To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Nice, White

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• I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

  William Saroyan

  Typewriters, Names, White

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• A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.

  Robert Greenwald

  Believe, Moving, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

  Samuel Palmer

  White, Shadow, Etching

  "The Letters of Samuel Palmer". Book edited by Raymond Lister, Oxford, Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), 1974.

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• Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

  Edna Ferber

  Monday, Morning, Typewriters

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

  David Milne

  Powerful, White, Paper

  David P. Silcox, David Milne (1996). “Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne”, p.284, University of Toronto Press

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• I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

  David Byrne

  Color, Sky, White

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "True Stories", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

  Erica Jong

  Years, Two, White

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jan 31, 2012

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• I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

  Marc Jacobs

  White, Black, Pieces

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview With Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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• We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

  David Ben-Gurion

  War, White, Holocaust

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• It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Car, Paper

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• But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Memories, Father, Taken

  Yehuda Amichai, “My Father”

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• He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t seen one in years, but I recognized it — a McDonald’s Happy Meal. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. “In my day, we used animal blood,” the ghost mumbled. “It’s perfectly good enough. They can’t taste the difference.” “I will treat them with respect,” Nico said. “At least let me keep the toy,” the ghost said.

  Rick Riordan

  Animal, White, Differences

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• on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, White, Pieces

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Blow, Squares

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• If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, White, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.47, Melville House

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• I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Special, Cameras

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

  Paul Gallico

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Years, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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