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“Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.”

Art America Wealth Democracy Influence Paper England Property Contrary Destroyed Corporations Printing Aristocracy Recourse

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams

“You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

Ifs Knows Believe May Doe Done Shows Beautiful House Break Wall Paper Sake Golden Painter Luxury Golden Rule Tapestry Mosaics Your Wall

Book:William Morris on Art and Socialism

Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism

“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”

“Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.”

Two Sometimes Greater Ignorance Drink Paper Smart Capacity Average British London Journalist Latter Splits Papers Sloth Aversion Hacks Mendacity Smart Money Obsequiousness

Author:Larry King

“Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.”

Ifs Whole Courses Interest Principles Issues Growing Honest Paper Delusion Violation Aristocracy Robbers Deposits

Book:Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]

Source: Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]

“The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.”

Mind Humans Media Paper Evening Get Away Print Human Mind Afternoon Ruined Papers

Book:Kitty Foyle

Source: Kitty Foyle

“It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.”

Way Jobs Difficult Break Paper Circles Ships Papers Break Through Seamen

Author:Paul Auster

“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”

Littles Paper Ink Exaggeration Equilibrium Exaggerating Ink And Paper

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.”

Ifs Men Causes Streets Paper Refuse Sparks Funeral Carriages Burn Out

Author:Lu Xun

“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Mind Minutes Giving Up Paper Constant Fingers Track My Way Things To Do Pens Yearning Of My Mind Keyboards Hankering

Author:Mary Garden

“About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.”

World Art Ends Shows Sports Process Lines Creative Type Paper Wide Architecture Aesthetic Thick Footy

Author:Max Walker

“What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.”

Men Writing Ends Certain Names Lost Speak Hero Fame Paper Originals Dust Hills Climbing Portions Uncertain Midnight Wretched Summit Bards Climbing Up Vapour

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.”

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.”

Happens Lord Morality Paper Ashamed Print

Author:Charles A. Dana

“So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.”

Writing Firsts Said Stories Lasts Remember Written Paper Depth Details Novelists Unconscious Last Words

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!”

World Way Writing Play Paper Attraction Expenses Conferences Jane Tourism Professionalism Circuits Combining Converting Austen

Book:The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.”

Made I Can Moments Calling Paper Incidents Words On Paper

Author:Robert Reed

“Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.”

People Writing I Can Reason Voice Talking Conversation Paper Pages Dialogue Save Me Voices In My Head

Author:Kim Smith

“I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.”

Growing Up Growing Paper

Author:John McLaughlin

“Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.”

Love Has Beens Real Order Paper Diversity Social Justice Accomplished Day To Day Farewell Papers Confirmation Farewell Love

Author:Etty Hillesum

“It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.”

Writing Actors Talking Paper Projects Mail

Author:Kristen Stewart

“The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!”

Want Giving Cutting Fields Paper Depth Glasses Dynamism Depth Of Field Paper Cuts

Author:Brendan Fraser

“I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.”

Stills Secret Morning Paper News Affection Newspapers

Author:Dave Eggers

“It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you have to be judicious with it. So it's good, but sometimes people deify it. You can't improvise your way out of a paper hat.”

People Way May Littles Sometimes Seems Bits Paper Little Bit Flow Hats Improvisation

Author:Steve Coogan

“For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.”

Enough Play Moving Games Return Paper Tradition Backgrounds Layers Imagery Theatrical Puppets I'm Back

Author:Michel Ocelot

“There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.”

Writing Trying Matter Conversation Paper Structure Leaving Helpful Existential Papers Learning How To Write

Author:Rashida Jones

“Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.”

Littles Book Whole Wonderful Paper Paint Library

Author:Jill Scott

“What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.”

Ifs Stills Ideas Subjects Paper Magazines Plenty Not Sure Something New Print

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).”

Needs Character Novel Progress Paper Track Plot Thread Files

Author:Charles Stross

“I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.”

Thinking Years Stills Form Steps Cases Car Tears Paper Losing Function Online Maps Suspects Atlas Up To Date Gps

Author:Charles Stross

“There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.”

Thinking Years Use Film Wife Color Paper Cameras Blind My Wife Plenty Going Out Manufacturing

Author:William Eggleston

“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.”

Writing I Can Feelings Hands Pieces Keys Paper Letters Come Up Printed Typewriters

Author:David McCullough

“We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.”

Knows Way Writing Doe School Brain Class Subjects Expression Paper Pens My Thoughts English Class

Author:David McCullough

“Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.”

Should Writing Book Paper Throwing Cathartic

Author:Gary Dell'Abate

“Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.”

Impossible Paper Reviews Rejected Papers

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.”

Problem Evil Found Answers Paper Woods Problem Of Evil

Author:Peter Kreeft

“When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.”

Knows Firsts Past Paper Casts Offering My Thoughts

Author:Michael Faraday

“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Has Beens Made Stills Ideas Home Differences Secret Creativity Changed Habit Essentials Paper Distance Our Time Get Away Obscure Papers Home Home

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.”

Should Writing Firsts Paper Bowels

Author:Howard Nemerov

“It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.”

Doe Lying Paper Discovering

Author:Andres Segovia

“In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.”

Source: Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal

“Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.”

Ifs Want Ideas Purpose Lines Failing Paper Print Good Ideas Counting

Author:Erik Naggum

“The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.”

Thinking Men Humans Ideas Character Beautiful Written Honest Human Nature Paper Blank Sheets Cult Implications Mao Blank Paper Tabula Rasa

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.”

Trying Looks Remember Moving Rooms Middle Paper Garden Window Embrace Staring Pace Papers Fingertips

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.”

Believe Paper Papers Weird Things

Author:Matthew Freud

“Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?”

Ifs Writing Two Certain Given Easy Risk Dangerous Activity Paper Approach Pushing Pens Topics Bullfighting

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.”

People Way Might Practice Paper Crisis Truthful Being Truthful Might Is Right

Author:Adam Carolla

“I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.”

Writing I Can Paper Computer Blogging Zines

Author:Mark Gonzales

“I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.”

Looks Process Paper Texture Animated Tactile

Author:Signe Baumane

“A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Believe Heart Real Moments Certain Sound Can Do Lines Boys Figures Poet Paper That Moment Rhyme Deep Down Good Words

Author:Cynthia Rylant

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